The paper, «Essential role
for orbitofrontal 5 - HT1B receptors in OCD - like behavior and SRI response in mice,» was published online September 15, 2011 by Biological Psychiatry (doi: 10.1016 / j.biopsych.2011.07.032).
Not exact matches
Just around the time that the nature of the dilemma crossed the border from impersonal to personal, I would see your amygdala and related brain circuits — your medial
orbitofrontal cortex,
for example — light up like a pinball machine.
He also saw smaller
orbitofrontal cortices in obese individuals, important
for impulse control and also involved in feeding behaviour (Brain Research, in press).
The researchers think that a junk diet causes lasting changes in the reward circuit parts of the rats» brain,
for example, the
orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain responsible
for decision - making.
Notable, areas in the medial
orbitofrontal region and the anterior cingulate cortex, which are relevant
for self - referential appraisal and aesthetic judgments, were found to be activated during the listening.
For the imaging results, we discovered that positive reward was encoded in the ventral striatum and negative reward elicited higher activity in the lateral
orbitofrontal cortex.
The
orbitofrontal oracle: cortical mechanisms
for the prediction and evaluation of specific behavioral outcomes..
For example, the medial
orbitofrontal cortex is thought to be heavily involved with «values of potential decision outcomes and adjusting those values based on learnings and experiences of reward or punishment.»
For example, the uncinate fasciculus is a white - matter tract connecting the amygdala and neighbouring anterior temporal lobe with the
orbitofrontal cortex and it thus may be involved in facilitating empathy, emotion regulation and socio - cognitive processes [150].
In the following sections we will review structural and functional neuroanatomical evidence derived from healthy participants as well as those with aggressive behaviour (e.g. conduct problems, CD, ODD)
for the key areas implicated here (
orbitofrontal and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, insula, cingulate cortex, amygdala).
The
orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been consistently implicated in emotion regulation (Goldin et al., 2008), and may be particularly important
for regulating negative affect in response to aversive cries.