This increases brain activity in the medial prefrontal cortex—a brain area involved in regulating emotions, stress and ...

Researchers have identified a potential diagnostic tool for schizophrenia by measuring brain cell activity between the ...

Further fMRI studies show that those sensitive to ASMR have increased activation in specific brain regions, including the medial prefrontal cortex (associated with self-awareness and social ...

Pregnancy brings profound changes, not only to a woman’s body but also to her brain. Recent studies highlight how pregnancy ...

Vallat and a team of researchers found that individuals who often remember their dreams have a greater abundance of white matter in a specific brain region known as the medial prefrontal cortex. This ...

According to the National Institute on Aging, problems managing money and with financial decision-making in general may be ...

Results showed that individuals whose mothers were in the high anxiety group tended to have weaker functional connectivity ...

And in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), research suggests that areas of the brain that inhibit the activity of the amygdala (such as the ventral medial prefrontal cortex) are themselves less ...

A prefrontal cortex that gives us awareness and the ability to consider the noise in our brains and identify it as fear, feeling or rational thinking. Carter says he teaches people to make decisions ...

Superior motor learning ability in athletes is not an innate talent but a skill that can be developed throughout life. Over ...

Animal studies have shown that this behavior is driven by deficits in how the part of the forebrain that helps animals make ...

Directly after re-exposure to these cues, AMPA receptor subunits GluR2 and GluR3 and NMDA receptor subtype 2B were downregulated in synaptic membranes of the medial prefrontal cortex, and clathrin ...