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It's been long established that our working memory, which allows us to temporarily hold and use information, such as ...

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The cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as distractibility, working-memory deficits and poor attention, could be caused by such instability of attractor states in prefrontal cortical networks.

But Rego, who has practiced psychiatry for three decades, takes the unique approach of examining with specificity the impact of 21st century life on our magnificent, misunderstood prefrontal cortexes.

Women with fibromyalgia who used a brain stimulation device reduced their pain by 39% on average in a double-blind, sham-controlled, randomized clinical trial.

The research looks at individuals with damage to different parts of the prefrontal cortex, the seat of executive decision-making, revealing how the brain evaluates uncertainty and guides those ...

“A lot of my own research is on how uncontrollable stress affects the prefrontal cortex, which is the most recently evolved part of our brains,” Arnsten said. “It does higher cognition, abstract ...

Such a task is often used to measure brain activation during response inhibition—the foundation of executive control—and since increased activation of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex ...