Sentences with phrase «orbitofrontal region»

The ability to inhibit such a response related to emotional aspects is related to the orbitofrontal region.

In addition to the aforementioned changes in executive functions, damages to the orbitofrontal region cause significant changes in inhibitory control related to emotional events.

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.

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Some of the regions that process emotion are already present in infants» brains at birth — the amygdala, hypothalamus, insula, cingulate cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex.

The cause, at a neurological level, is hyperconnectivity between two brain regions, the orbitofrontal cortex and the caudate nucleus, creating a tidal wave of unfounded mortal fear and triggering habitual response as the only way to attain calm.

The deactivation of specific PFC regions significantly altered the performance of the animals: The inhibition of regions in the infralimbic cortex (IL) or the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) impeded the ability of the rats to react to external signals.

Redish and Steiner implanted minute electrodes into a brain region associated with regret in monkeys and humans, called the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC).

Subjects with the greatest reduction of the unpleasantness of the pain — which is what most people care about — exhibited the greatest activation of regions in the orbitofrontal cortex and the largest reduction in the thalamus (gating the incoming sensory information).

Researchers also used imaging techniques to look at two regions of the participants» brains — the insula and orbitofrontal cortex — known to be involved in salty taste.

She found that 50 - minute cell phone calls increased metabolism in the regions closest to the phone antenna — specifically, the orbitofrontal cortex and temporal pole, which are involved in sensory integration, language, decision making, and social and emotional processing.

The MRI scans showed that obese subjects with binge eating disorder have lower grey matter volumes — a measure of the number of neurons — in the orbitofrontal cortex and striatum of the brain compared to those who do not binge eat; these brain regions are involved in keeping track of goals and rewards.

It emerged that theta activity increased in response to near - misses relative to other losses in brain regions such as insula and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which was linked to gambling severity.

Compared with healthy controls, those who had Tourette's exhibited more activity in the premotor cortex and cerebellum, regions that handle motor control, and less activity in the striatum and orbitofrontal cortex, areas involved in decision making and learning.

The left precuneus demonstrated decreased FC to several regions of pain processing, reward, and higher executive functioning within the prefrontal (orbitofrontal, anterior cingulate, ventromedial prefrontal) and parietal cortices (angular gyrus, superior and inferior parietal lobules).

In humans, scientists have identified a region called the orbitofrontal cortex that is more active in OCD subjects.

Both orbitofrontal and hippocampal regions have been implicated in emotional regulation and response control.

Neural regions expressed in human OCD include the orbitofrontal cortex, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the anterior cingulate circuit, the basal ganglia and the thalamus [18] and also the amygdala [19].

A human neuroimaging study using diffusion tensor imaging revealed that the anterior insula is interconnected to regions in the temporal and occipital lobe, opercular and orbitofrontal cortex, triangular and opercular parts of the inferior frontal gyrus.

In this model, the cognitive control system including prefrontal and parietal regions and the anterior cingulate is crucial to decision - making but is functionally dominated by a second affective system that includes regions which are important to processing reward and social and emotional salience, including but not limited to the amygdala, ventral striatum, orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and the superior temporal sulcus.

We hypothesized that whole - brain and region - of - interest analyses would identify differences in cortical thickness in prefrontal (especially anterior cingulate, middle frontal gyrus and orbitofrontal cortex) brain regions in female adolescents with early onset SUD, compared to controls.