| Called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, it lies just a couple of inches behind the right eye. |
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| This is also true for the prefrontal of Phosphatosaurus, based on the reconstruction published by Buffetaut. |
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| A cingulutomy is a prefrontal lobotomy that severs certain functions between the two frontal hemispheres. |
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| Brain imaging studies have implicated hypofunction of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in depression. |
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| In ostriches the alar bone integrated with the elements of the prefrontal bones. |
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| What I've hopefully done is lit a spark in your brains that'll burn a tunnel from your prefrontal lobes to your medulla oblongata. |
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| The prefrontal lobe is known to be involved in pragmatic language processes and complex social cognition. |
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| A primary function of the frontal and prefrontal lobes is to inhibit responses. |
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| When people, especially children, experience fear from external sources, the prefrontal cortex has to provide a sense of safety. |
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| Affective and motivational dimensions of pain were proposed as mediated by medial thalamic nuclei, the prefrontal cortex, and the limbic system. |
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| At least three pairs of horns are present on this animal, one on each premaxilla, prefrontal, and angular bones of the skull. |
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| The cerebellum is functionally linked with the prefrontal cortex. |
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| The level of activity in the prefrontal orbital cortex is believed to affect appropriate social behaviour. |
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| Previous findings by the same research teams linked this prefrontal region with how we think about ourselves and others. |
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| This operation, also called prefrontal leucotomy or standard lobotomy, was performed widely, and soon its beneficial as well as its detrimental effects became apparent. |
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| Solms discovered that patients who had had a prefrontal leukotomy, a common surgical procedure for mental illness in the 1950s and 60s, reported loss of dreaming. |
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| This region is highly interconnected to the prefrontal orbital cortex and the basal ganglia via a number of brain cell pathways. |
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| The basal ganglia, the prefrontal orbital cortex and the cingulate gyrus all have many brain cells affected by serotonin. |
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| The findings suggest that damage to the right mesial prefrontal cortex causes abnormal hoarding behavior by releasing the primitive hoarding urge from its normal restraints. |
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| Six months later, the researchers found, the subjects who showed the most activity in the brain's right prefrontal cortex also had the lowest antibodies. |
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| Several were of a gruesome medical procedure, a prefrontal lobotomy. |
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| Healthy habits-correct nourishment and exercise-Increase blood flow in the prefrontal cortex. |
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| Their research indicates that the prefrontal cortex of the brain has a rapid period of growth just before puberty. |
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| Third, unique human expression patterns were more common in the prefrontal cortex than in the cerebellum. |
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| The regions of the brain primarily involved with these forms of cognitive functioning include the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and cerebellum. |
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| The most noteworthy damage to the brain probably occurs in the prefrontal cortex, which controls what is call the Executive Functions. |
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| This substance stimulates neuronal activity in a specific region of the prefrontal cortex and could give rise to a new class of anti-depressants. |
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| But in 1935, the distinguished Portuguese neuroscientist, Egas Moniz, directed the first prefrontal lobotomy, and this marked the real beginning of modern psychosurgery. |
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| Counting backward by 7s is a complex cognitive task, and calls upon the brain's center for higher thoughts in the prefrontal cortex. |
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| Even though the solution was obvious, their deliberation mode, roughly prefrontal cortex decision making, prevented them from accessing their undermind to come up with more creative solutions. |
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| Hoeft's group, she told me, has found that stealth dyslexics display a unique dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. |
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| However, proper function of the prefrontal cortex requires norepinephrine and dopamine level to also be within optimal level. |
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| It includes the prefrontal cortex, where cognitive control is implemented. |
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| Scientific American's Frontiers TV series, hosted by Alan Alda, recently ran an episode that looked at the functioning of the prefrontal cortex of the brain as it related to learning and behavior modification. |
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| Previously published stereological studies on the prefrontal cortex in schizophrenics include Thune et al. |
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| Altered reward processing in the nucleus accumbens and mesial prefrontal cortex of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder. |
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| This is especially noticeable in the prefrontal cortex, which is important for advanced cognition, the parietal lobes, which are important for spatial and arithmetic reasoning, and the visual cortex. |
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| The prefrontal leukotomy procedure developed by Moniz and Lima was modified in 1936 by American neurologists Walter J. Freeman II and James W. Watts. |
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| Lobotomy, also called prefrontal leukotomy, surgical procedure in which the nerve pathways in a lobe or lobes of the brain are severed from those in other areas. |
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| He also explains that the parts of the brain involved in creating dreams and nightmares are the ventromedial forebrain, prefrontal cortex and limbic system. |
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| Dissociable mechanisms of attentional control within the human prefrontal cortex. |
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| When treated with tDCS to their prefrontal cortices, the nervous individuals improved their reaction time on simple arithmetical problems and showed reduced levels of stress. |
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| There was also greater activity in prefrontal, supplemental motor, insular, and anterior cingulated cortices in response to nonpainful, warm stimuli. |
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| The prefrontal cortex makes the decision how the individual should act and allocates the cognitive and motoric efforts needed for the specific event. |
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| Both are designed to thrash your prefrontal cortex into submission. |
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| Hopefully, my prefrontal cortex is solidified by now. |
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| Regulation of prefrontal cortex myelination by the microbiota. |
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| Evidence that the prefrontal cortex is involved in spiritual experiences exists, and I submit that if I was going to pinpoint a brain area of great interest for investigation, support and protection, it would be there. |
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| Analysis of their function is ongoing and will involve moving from the global analysis of the RNA of the prefrontal cortex to that of the proteins at neuron level. |
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| Methods of investigation include neuropsychological testing of patients with damage to the medial temporal lobes and prefrontal cortex, and structural and functional MRI of patient and healthy populations. |
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| In the animal studies, increased extracellular levels of dopamine were observed in the prefrontal cortex, along with increased levels of serotonin and norepinephrine. |
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| Brain development in the prefrontal cortex. |
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| One was the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is the seat of abstract reasoning and social behaviour things that humans are particularly good at. |
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| The anode went just over my left eye, to stimulate the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex — a part of the brain that may be underactive in depressed people — and the cathode over the visual cortex, on the back of my head. |
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| Instead, they are sent to the prefrontal cortex for longer-term storage. |
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| However, the research has helped to clarify the role that cannabis plays in impairing educational performance, mainly through the negative effect of cannabis on prefrontal functions as Executive Functioning. |
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| Thus, it is the comportmental axis of the prefrontal cortex that is responsible in many ways for our humanity. |
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| The dorsal surface of the turtle's head has a single pair of prefrontal scales. |
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| Still in her mother's womb, Michelle's right prefrontal area had no opportunity to commit itself to abstrusion. |
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| Their study confirms that this pathway, the medial prefrontal cortex via a thalamic nucleus to the hippocampus, does. |
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| More specifically, inhibition of their activity disinhibits the activity of the prefrontal projection neurons, and synchronises their action. |
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| Attention-deficit disorder is not a sickness, but a disorder that affects the prefrontal cortex in the brain. |
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| Walking along the highway did nothing to diminish activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex. |
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| Usually, the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala operate in tandem, a joint effort that seems to be involved in shutting down negative emotions. |
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| However, in contrast to the facilitative actions in subcortical structures, high levels of catecholamine release in prefrontal cortex result in cognitive dysfunction. |
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| Likewise, neuroimaging studies show that placebo treatment activates specific brain structures such as the prefrontal cortex and the rostral anterior cingulate cortex. |
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| These areas, the supplementary motor area, the pre-supplementary area and the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, are known to be linked to executive function. |
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| The limbic system is further connected to the orbital-frontal area of the cerebral cortex, Wernicke's area, the inferior parietal region, and the lateral prefrontal cortex. |
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| People with more professional training and education have more synapses in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, Illinois and Russian neuroscientists say. |
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| A year before the premiere, which launched Williams' highly successful career, his family gave Rose's doctors permission to perform a bilateral prefrontal lobotomy on her. |
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