The brain’s medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is responsible for detecting whether or not incoming information is in any way related to such stored memories. So what happens when we are presented ...

As hypothesized, experiments indicated that the mPFC is the basis of emotional inference. Before undergoing aversive conditioning, neurons in the mPFC responded similarly to both the image and the ...

In a new study published in PLOS Biology, a research team found that damage to distinct parts of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) was linked to being influenced by impulsive decision-making by ...

Team members observed that neurons in the mPFC developed a similar mental map during the learning process. They also found that when the activity of the LEC neurons was inhibited, those in the ...

People who have damage to a specific part of their brains are more likely to be impulsive, and new research has found that damage also makes them more likely to be influenced by other people.

The study also investigated the neurological basis for these results. In humans, the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) plays an important role in moderation of stress and also in social cognition ...

Here’s how it works: Typically, when you think about yourself, a region of the brain known as the medial prefrontal cortex, or MPFC, powers up. When you think about other people, it powers down.

The people who were closest to the students – like close friends or family – tended to elicit more powerful signals in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Those signals were also strikingly ...