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The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in text comprehension inferences: Semantic coherence or socio-emotional perspective?
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2014-02)
Two hypotheses about the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in narrative comprehension inferences, global semantic coherence versus socio-emotional perspective, were tested. Seven patients with vmPFC lesions ...
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the regulation of physiological arousal
(Oxford Univ Press, 2014-07-01)
Neuroimaging studies show a correlation between activity of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and skin conductance measurements. However, little is known whether this brain region plays a causal role in regulating ...
Dilemas morales, juicio moral y corteza prefrontal ventromedial
(Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia, 2013-07-01)
La investigación empírica acerca de fenómenos neurológicos se ha convertido, en los últimos años, en un elemento relevante a la hora de analizar conceptos morales. Este artículo analiza la función ...
A cognicao social e o cortex cerebralSocial cognition and the brain cortex
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, 2001-12)
A cognição social é o processo que orienta condutas frente a outros indivíduos da mesma espécie. Várias estruturas cerebrais têm um papel chave para controlar as condutas sociais: o córtex pré-frontal ventromedial, a ...
Psychosis-related matricide associated with a lesion of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
(2013)
Matricide, the killing of a mother by her biological child, is a rare event. We report a case of matricide associated with a woman who sustained a right ventromedial prefrontal lesion during surgery for nasal polyposis ...
Commentary: Attentional control and the self: The Self-Attention Network (SAN)
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015-10)
The Self-Attention Network (SAN) model (Humphreys & Sui, 2015) is a recent neurocognitive model to account for self-biases in the allocation of attention. It emerges from psychological, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging ...
Antidepressant-Like Effects of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Deep Brain Stimulation in Rats
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2010)
Background: Subcallosal cingulate gyrus (SCG) deep brain stimulation (DBS) is being investigated as a treatment for major depression. We report on the effects of ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) DBS in rats, focusing ...
Neuromodulação, atividade neuronal e respostas psicofisiológicas durante exercício físico
(BrasilPROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA, 2015-02-23)
Introduction: It is known that the prefrontal cortex plays an important role in the reward system, and the insular cortex aware information coming from the body condition on feelings. Therefore, modulation of these regions ...