People between 18 and 25 can vote, enlist in the military, and sign binding contracts, yet the brain region responsible for ...
For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical maps divide the brain into regions according to structural variations in the ...
About four or five months after conception, a burst of synaptic growth begins in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of the human fetus. And within this tangled mass of connections, the developing brain ...
Researchers examining postmortem human brains have found that the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for planning, ...
A circuit that runs from the prefrontal cortex near the front of the brain to a deeper brain structure called the insular cortex appears to mediate the antidepressant effects of a newer form of ...