Separate layer styles panel

Hey all.
I was wondering if anyone knoew of an extension/plugin for Photoshop which essentially mimics the "Attributes" panel in Illustrator, but showing all the layer styles applied (or not applied) to a selected layer.
Currently, we need to select the layer and 'open' the layer styles options to see/edit them. Having to open/close these for each layer can get tedious, so I was thinking a separate panel which simply showed the same info as the open/close options would be handy to have open at all times.
I'm 99.9% sure PShop can't do this on it's own, and wanted to know if anyone knew of an extension/plugin that does this. I haven't been able to find one anywhere online.
Thanks for any info!

Hello everyone ...
So, the Reset button in the Layer Styles panel never reset the default settings. But after trying several times I was able to manually enter the settings I thought I recalled being the default settings and then clicked on the Make Default button which finally worked.

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