Picture this: it's your first day at a new job. You're about to introduce yourself to a large group of people you'll be ...

The team worked with 121 participants, with 33 having focal damage to the mPFC, 17 with lesions elsewhere on the brain and 71 participants who had no brain damage but were of the same age.

Researchers have discovered how inferred emotions are learned. The study shows that the frontal part of the brain coordinates with the amygdala -- a brain region important for simple forms of ...

These studies identified the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) as a brain region re­­lated to self-thought. This area, the mPFC, can be further di­­­­vided into upper and lower regions ...

Xiaowei Gu and Joshua Johansen at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered key circuitry in the rat brain that allows the learning of inferred emotions. The study reveals how ...

They found a causal relationship between the action that serotonin has on this brain region and patience for anticipated rewards. Serotonin, ... or the mPFC parts of the brain.

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Critically, participants who were less socially connected (i.e. lonelier) showed altered self-other mapping in social brain regions. Most notably, in MPFC, loneliness was associated with reduced ...

Adolescent diets high in fat and sugar disrupt the development of the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, impacting cognition, ...

These therapeutic effects are thought to involve modulation of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a brain region implicated in depression pathology. This study presents preliminary ...

Brain regions that have been previously identified as being involved in autobiographical memory processing are the mPFC and the PCC (which also play a key role in self-reflection), and the ...