Tag: prefrontal cortex

New research shows that two mutations of the α5 nicotinic receptor gene produce opposing empathy-related behaviors in mice, mirroring distinct ...

A pilot study found that pairing cognitive training with active right-prefrontal tDCS selectively improved non-verbal reasoning and associative fluency in ...

Adolescents with weak brain responses to rewards may be more likely to start using cannabis, a new study suggests.

A new EEG-based non-linear state-space model continuously infers trust in autonomous systems during a space-relevant supervisory task, outperforming linear and ...

A new collection of five computational neuroscience studies argues that cognition emerges from processes spanning single neurons to whole brain ...

New recordings in navigating rats show that spatial learning selectively strengthens information flow from the hippocampus into the thalamic nucleus ...

A longitudinal fMRI study in mice shows that chronic stress dismantles brain function in stages, from local hub breakdown to ...

A new Frontiers Research Topic links normative data from Ghanaian children, attention findings in paralytic strabismus, prefrontal imaging of binocular ...

A wearable fNIRS study found that a dispositional preference for visual expression predicts prefrontal hemodynamics during hands-on design, but only ...

A new review from Yale University traces how peripheral immune signals reach the prefrontal, insular, and somatosensory cortices through neural ...

A new rat study shows that rTMS for depression recruits different behavioral, hormonal, and molecular adaptations depending on whether the ...

A large-scale analysis of 336 human prefrontal cortex samples identifies more than 51,000 short tandem repeats linked to alternative splicing ...

A large MRI study finds that grey matter loss in type 2 diabetes appears to begin in the left insula ...

Overexpressing the schizophrenia-linked complement gene C4 in just two percent of mouse cortical neurons triggers widespread transcriptional, lipid-droplet, and stress ...

A study of more than 2,400 older adults finds that age-related hearing loss is linked to weaker structural brain connections, ...

A preliminary BMC Neuroscience study found that male athletes with high body mass index showed different prefrontal cortex oxygenation patterns ...

A new review reveals that the dynamic expression of estrogen receptor subtypes across brain development may explain why anesthesia causes ...

A large multi-cohort neuroimaging study shows that the brain's intrinsic timescales mature hierarchically along the sensorimotor-to-association cortical axis during youth ...

A new review maps how the kappa-opioid receptor/dynorphin system acts as a circuit-specific switch in the brain's fear and reward ...

A Taiwanese eye-tracking study found that older adults with late-life depression make more anti-saccade errors and show weaker voluntary inhibitory ...