All Articles Tagged As: prefrontal cortex

Neuroscientist Scans Brain For Clues on Best Time to Multitask (9/4/2008)

A new brain imaging study led by a cognitive neuroscientist finds that there are optimal times when we are better suited to multitask. ...> Full Article

Not quite a teen, not fully an adult (8/7/2008)

New report sheds light on young adults' triumphs, traumas ...> Full Article

Study uncovers how Ritalin works in brain to boost cognition, focus attention (6/27/2008)

Ritalin fine-tunes the functioning of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) - a brain region involved in attention, decision-making and impulse control ...> Full Article

When your memories can no longer be trusted (5/31/2008)

The experience of false memories, known as confabulation, appears centered in the inferior medial prefrontal cortex ...> Full Article

Brain reacts to fairness as it does to money and chocolate, study shows (4/23/2008)

The human brain responds to being treated fairly the same way it responds to winning money and eating chocolate ...> Full Article

Research Suggests Why Scratching is So Relieving (2/2/2008)

In the first study to use imaging technology to see what goes on in the brain when we scratch, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have uncovered new clues about why scratching may be so relieving - and why it can be hard to stop. The work is reported online in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology and will appear in a future print issue. ...> Full Article

Scientists Identify Brain Abnormalities Underlying Key Element of Borderline Personality Disorder (12/26/2007)

Using new approaches, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City has gained a view of activity in key brain areas associated with a core difficulty in patients with borderline personality disorder-shedding new light on this serious psychiatric condition. ...> Full Article

Meditation can change brain function, psychology study says (12/17/2007)

Feeling stressed or depressed? You may one day be prescribed meditation rather than medication, thanks to a study conducted by researchers from the Department of Psychology and the Centre for Addiction andMental Health (CAMH) at St. Joseph's Hospital. ...> Full Article

Key to False Memories Uncovered (11/9/2007)

Neuroscientists say the places a memory is processed in the brain may determine how someone can be absolutely certain of a past event that never occurred. ...> Full Article

Brain Waves That Distinguish False Memories From Real Ones Pinpointed (10/25/2007)

For the first time, researchers are able to pinpoint brain waves that distinguish true from false memories, providing a better understanding of how memory works and creating a new strategy to help epilepsy patients retain cognitive function. ...> Full Article

How schizophrenia develops: Major clues discovered (10/18/2007)

Schizophrenia may occur, in part, because of a problem in an intermittent on/off switch for a gene involved in making a key chemical messenger in the brain, scientists have found in a study of human brain tissue. The researchers found that the gene is turned on at increasingly high rates during normal development of the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain involved in higher functions like thinking and decision-making – but that this normal increase may not occur in people with schizophrenia. ...> Full Article