The prefrontal cortex (PFC)
Functional connectivity bias in the prefrontal cortex of psychopaths
... The current findings also complement our previous work in this cohort (6,14). In one study (6), we showed that the brain in psychopaths is responsive to emotional stimuli and that emotion-related brain activation may be ...
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The role of the prefrontal cortex in the expression of impulsive and premeditated aggression
... impairment in the interpretation of emotions in others. This finding is in contrast with Hornak et al. who found a strong association between face decoding deficits and subjective and objective reports of emotional ...
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A Source for Feature-Based Attention in the Prefrontal Cortex
... We did not find evidence for the early selection of targets defined by feature in IT cortex, consistent with the results of other studies in IT during visual search (Chelazzi et al., 1998; Monosov et al., 2010; ...
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A Source for Feature-Based Attention in the Prefrontal Cortex
... We did not find evidence for the early selection of targets defined by feature in IT cortex, consistent with the results of other studies in IT during visual search (Chelazzi et al., 1998; Monosov et al., 2010; ...
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Transcriptomic evidence for immaturity of the prefrontal cortex in patients with schizophrenia
... schizophrenic cortex have a pseudo-immature status in which the molecular properties partially resemble those in the normal immature ...schizophrenic prefrontal cortex (PFC) resemble those in the ...
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Task switching in the prefrontal cortex
... are prefrontal subdivisions implicated in the adjustment and directing of attention, but it remains unclear whether they are more important for certain types of task ...different prefrontal subdivisions are ...
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Prefrontal cortex and the dysconnectivity hypothesis of schizophrenia
... the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and other brain regions, and how this dysconnectivity is linked to the impaired cognitive functions and aberrant behaviors of ...Keywords: prefrontal cortex; ...
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The role of the prefrontal cortex in hypnotic and placebo analgesia.
... We will be collecting various types of information from you: 1) performance scores on the Stroop Task and Hayling Task to see if they are related to your susceptibility to hypnotic sug[r] ...
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Neuronal Mechanisms of Decision Making in the Prefrontal Cortex
... This revealed that at Cue 1, the negative correlation between these two regressors in the ACC population was present even before cue presentation (although the s[r] ...
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Prefrontal Cortex and Social Cognition in Mouse and Man
... the prefrontal cortex (PFC) as a key regulator in social cognition, suggesting that disruptions in prefrontal microcircuitry play an essential role in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders ...
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Segregation of the human medial prefrontal cortex in social cognition
... the prefrontal cortex are known to be involved in many high-level cognitive functions, including executive control, action selection, multi- tasking, social cognition, or general ...
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Circuit mechanisms for learning in the rodent Prefrontal cortex and their dysfunction in Schizophrenia
... The PFC has also been in recent focus due to a growing recognition that dysfunction in its development and circuitry may underlie cognitive symptoms associated with disorders such as Schizophrenia (Volk and Lewis, 2010), ...
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Hippocampal-midbrain circuit enhances the pleasure of anticipation in the prefrontal cortex
... ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) tracks the value of anticipation; dopamin- ergic midbrain responds to information that enhances anticipation, while the sustained activ- ity in hippocampus provides ...
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microRNA expression in the prefrontal cortex of individuals with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder
... postmortem prefrontal cortex tissue of individuals with schizophrenia (n = 13) or schizoaffective disorder (n = 2) to tissue of 21 psychiatrically unaffected individuals using a custom miRNA ...in ...
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Executive function and prefrontal cortex in rats
... the prefrontal cortex in behavioural flexibility and for a functional dissociation between the PL and IL cortices; the PL cortex is in involved attentional set shifting and the IL cortex is ...
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The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Conditioning and Extinction of Fear
... the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala, form an essential brain circuit involved in fear conditioning and ...the prefrontal cortex is thought to exert top-down control over ...
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Hyperconnectivity of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in obsessive-compulsive disorder
... the prefrontal cortex, dysfunction of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), a central hub in coordinating flexible behaviour, is thought to play a pivotal role in anxiety-related disor- ...
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Hyperconnectivity of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
... the prefrontal cortex, dysfunction of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), a central hub in coordinating flexible behaviour, is thought to play a pivotal role in anxiety-related disor- ...
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Role of prefrontal cortex and cholinergic modulation in attentional performance in rats
... The present thesis will investigate the role of the prefrontal cortex and cholinergic modulation in attentional performance, and to a lesser extent, inhibitory response control, in rats. Attentional ...
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Prefrontal cortex activation and young driver behaviour: a fNIRS study
... The prefrontal cortex is associated with a number of factors including mental workload and inhibitory control, both of which are also related to road traffic ...measure prefrontal cortex ...
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