This involved running a painless electrical current between two electrodes placed on the participant's scalp, to activate the
right inferior frontal gyrus, a part of the brain that controls inhibitory control.
Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy
in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions
The so -
called Inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) was activated more during sequences which were ungrammatical than grammatical, although brain activity was more weighted towards the right hemisphere.
Two of these areas are the
left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), which processes the planning of speech movements, and the left motor cortex, which controls the actual speech movements.
In a regression model controlling for effects of age, sex, and handedness, intelligence (Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence) was significantly associated with gray matter density
in inferior frontal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, lingual gyrus, precuneus, hippocampal region, and cerebellum (subsample of N = 200 used for model development).
«If the
anterior inferior frontal gyrus itself is impaired, its failure can hardly be compensated and its tasks are not taken over by another part of the language network, making it much harder to analyse the rhythmic structure of a word, that is to say its syllables.»
«People exposed to adversity early in life experience changes in the volume of
the inferior frontal gyrus that probably can make children more vulnerable to behavioral issues and bad decision - making,» theorized Luby, director of Washington University's Early Emotional Development Program.
The first scans, performed when the children reached school age, showed that
the inferior frontal gyrus was smaller in children who had more adverse experiences.
And even well - adjusted adolescents may be primed to choose the heart over the head — or, perhaps we should now say, the ventral striatum over
the inferior frontal gyrus.
At those moments, part of the cognitive control network, called
the inferior frontal gyrus, was more active than it was at other times.
The researchers hypothesized bilateral activation of
the inferior frontal gyrus, the anatomical structure housing Broca's area, during ungrammatical sequences compared to grammatical sequences.
The researchers also found hyperactive connections between the amygdala, which is important for processing emotion, and
the inferior frontal gyrus, which is involved in language processing.
• Increased cortical thickness in ASD participants, compared to controls, across the left cingulate, left pars opercularis of
the inferior frontal gyrus, left inferior temporal cortex and the right precuneus;
The researchers saw that among the PTSD group, who were all taking the drug paroxetine (sold as Paxil), the patients who showed the most improvement from the SSRI were those who showed the least activation, prior to treatment, of a brain area called the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, also known as
the inferior frontal gyrus.
We now know why an individual with a brain injury affecting
the inferior frontal gyrus and the orbito - frontal regions can no longer interpret the emotions related to what his or her peers are saying, and may, as a result, adopt socially inappropriate behaviour.»
Unlike the voice - background noise distinction that is found in the temporal lobe, the actions of categorising and discriminating call on the frontal lobe, in particular
the inferior frontal gyri (down the sides of the forehead).
The analysis revealed that while performing working memory tasks, the young patients with concussion had initial activation that was greater than normal, known as hyperactivation, compared to young controls in the right precuneus and right inferior parietal gyrus of the brain, whereas the older patients had hypoactivation (less than normal) compared to older controls in the right precuneus and right
inferior frontal gyrus.
Dyslexic readers showed decreased connectivity within the visual pathway as well as between visual and prefrontal regions, increased right - hemisphere connectivity, reduced connectivity in the visual word - form area, and persistent connectivity to anterior language regions around
the inferior frontal gyrus.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig and at the University Medical Center Göttingen have now gained crucial insights: The hyperactivity in regions of the right hemisphere seems to be central for stuttering: «Parts of the right
inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) are particularly active when we stop actions, such as hand or speech movements,» says Nicole Neef, neuroscientist at MPI CBS and first author of the new study.
Besides, the UGR research associates motor ability with a greater gray matter volume in two regions essential for language processing and reading:
the inferior frontal gyrus and the superior temporal gyrus.
fMRI results revealed that left
Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG), specifically pars triangularis, was significantly more activated in bilinguals than monolinguals for both, true and false memories.
Following our pre-registered specification to include 10 GM regions, we selected the following 10 ROIs, bilaterally averaged: the frontal pole, superior frontal gyrus, middle frontal gyrus,
inferior frontal gyrus (pars triangularis and pars opercularis subdivision), supramarginal gyrus (posterior and anterior), angular gyrus, frontal medial cortex and the cingulate gyrus.
It was also found difference in between processing happy expressions and neutral faces at the right superior temporal gyrus, left cuneus, right middle Occipital Gyrus, right
inferior frontal gyrus, and right Lingual Gyrus.
Bilateral ROIs implicated in naming (i.e., anterior cingulate; superior, middle and
inferior frontal gyri; middle and inferior temporal gyri; supramarginal and angular gyri)(Indefrey & Levelt, 2004) were extracted from the Harvard - Oxford atlas.
As such, the current study aimed to characterize connectivity between two key regions implicated in semantic control:
inferior frontal gyrus, pars triangularis (IFGtri) and posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG), during a semantic association task in four BAA and four age - matched, healthy bilingual controls (BHC).
However, for the sham acupuncture group, more differences were observed in contralateral operculum, ipsilateral insula,
inferior frontal gyrus, medial frontal gyrus and superior frontal gyrus.
Increases occurred in left temporo - parietal cortex and left
inferior frontal gyrus, bringing brain activation in these regions closer to that seen in normal - reading children.
The determination of relevance to self of verbal statements of differing emotional valence involved left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (left
inferior frontal gyrus, BA 47), right caudate and right cingulate gyrus (BA 24).
Attention to threatening material relevant to self differentially activated a more dorsal region of the left
inferior frontal gyrus (BA 44).
Although number of AR CAG trinucleotide repeats was positively correlated with neural activity in brain regions important for empathy (anterior insula and
inferior frontal gyrus), restrictive attitudes were inversely correlated with neural activity in these regions and with regions involved with emotion regulation (orbitofrontal cortex).