A traditionally overlooked type of RNA plays an important role in promoting resilience to depression-but only in females.

A new study published in Neuropsychopharmacology sheds light on how heroin exposure alters brain function related to social ...

When someone saw real projected lines, activity in the fusiform gyrus was stronger than when they knew they were simply ...

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been reported to signal the expected outcome and its discrepancy from the actual outcome (prediction error), two variables essential for controlling the ...

While some past studies found that stimulating the brain, particularly the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), can change a person's physical appearance, they did not determine whether it altered how ...

But unlike humans, rodents lack a well-developed prefrontal cortex—the brain region housed immediately behind the forehead that regulates our thoughts, emotions and actions. Knowledge of the ...

Doctors may not be able to identify damages to the prefrontal cortex at first sight, and the outcomes for the patient can be everlasting.

Their findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggest that these memories are stored in the prefrontal cortex, the area covering the front part of the mammalian brain.

There has been a longtime obsession that the prefrontal cortex doesn't finish developing until age 25, but is this pop science based on fact or fiction?

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The greatest enemy of anyone below 25 is the prefrontal cortex. Indeed, it is the devil on your shoulder that whispers in your ear, telling you to smoke that weed the night before your economics ...