Cluster a (a) shows the default mode network, consisting of frontal regions, including superior frontal gyrus (BA 8/9) and
medial frontal gyrus (BA 10/11) and precuneus / posterior cingulate cortex (BA 23/31) and bilateral regions overlapping middle / superior temporal tyrus (BA 21/39) and inferior / superior parietal cortex (BA 39/40).
These modules include the visual (yellow), sensory / motor (orange) and basal ganglia (red) cortices as well as the default mode network (precuneus / posterior cingulate, inferior parietal lobes, and
medial frontal gyrus; maroon).
In comparison, the SI values of
the medial frontal gyri were attenuated, indicating this region to be less consistently found in the DMN module.
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.
Two of such modules are the ventral (superior parietal cortex as well as superior and
medial frontal gyri) and dorsal (superior parietal cortex, superior and dorsal lateral frontal, and precentral gyri) attention networks identified by previous fMRI analyses [3].
Recording from downstream neurons in the caudate and from thalamic neurons projecting to
the medial frontal cortex indicated that this phenomenon originates within cortical networks.
Anatomically, these neurons have widespread connections to the brain stem, a primitive region that controls waking and sleep; to nearby basal ganglia involved in movement; and to
the medial frontal lobes, which are involved in motivation.
Losses generated ERPs that originated deep within
the medial frontal cortex, a part of the brain located behind the upper forehead.
«It might be that
those medial frontal regions tell the rest of the brain, «You can chill,»» he says.
Moreover, researchers found that the aging brain's failure to coordinate deep - sleep brainwaves is most likely due to degradation or atrophy of
the medial frontal cortex, a key region of the brain's frontal lobe that generates the deep, restorative slumber that we enjoy in our youth.
Not exact matches
Injuries to various parts of the
frontal lobe can leave some people unable to talk or can alter personality, yielding impulsive or antisocial behaviors, and lesions to the
medial temporal lobe can erase our memories or prevent new ones from forming.
Namely, they investigated language and cognition control areas in the
frontal regions of the brain, and
medial temporal lobe structures that are important for memory and are brain areas known to atrophy in MCI and AD patients.
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.
By employing two paradigms that differed widely in musical complexity, we found that improvisation (compared to production of over-learned musical sequences) was consistently characterized by a dissociated pattern of activity in the prefrontal cortex: extensive deactivation of dorsolateral prefrontal and lateral orbital regions with focal activation of the
medial prefrontal (
frontal polar) cortex.
Contrasting the perception of anxiety sweat with sport sweat, significant brain activations were detected in the right insula (BA 44, 47, 48; Fig. 3a), the right precuneus (BA 4, 5; Fig. 3b), the left supramarginal gyrus (BA 40), the right thalamus, the dorsomedial
frontal gyrus (BA 6, 8, 9), the right inferior
frontal gyurs (BA 44), the right anterior (BA 24) and posterior (BA 23, 29) cingulated gyrus (Fig. 3c), the right substantia nigra, the left fusiform gyrus (BA 37; Fig. 3d), the left cerebellum (BA 19, 30) and the
medial vermis (see Table 2).
Imaging studies using these composite measures of SES have found significant correlations between composite scores and regions in the
medial temporal lobe and
frontal lobe (Raizada et al., 2008; Jednoróg et al., 2012), but without knowing associations to specific SES markers, it is difficult to compare these studies with other structural imaging studies.
Aging and the neural correlates of successful picture encoding:
Frontal activations compensate for decreased
medial - temporal activity