The prefrontal cortex: from monkey to man

R Levy - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The prefrontal cortex is so important to human beings that, if deprived of it, our behaviour is
reduced to action-reactions and automatisms, with no ability to make deliberate decisions …

Understanding the heterogeneity of anxiety using a translational neuroscience approach

CM Drzewiecki, AS Fox - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2024 - Springer
Anxiety disorders affect millions of people worldwide and present a challenge in
neuroscience research because of their substantial heterogeneity in clinical presentation …

Side-by-side regions in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex estimated within the individual respond differentially to domain-specific and domain-flexible processes

LM DiNicola, W Sun… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
A recurring debate concerns whether regions of primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) support
domain-flexible or domain-specific processes. Here we tested the hypothesis with functional …

The relevance of the unique anatomy of the human prefrontal operculum to the emergence of speech

C Amiez, C Verstraete, J Sallet… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Identifying the evolutionary origins of human speech remains a topic of intense scientific
interest. Here we describe a unique feature of adult human neuroanatomy compared to …

Neuroanatomical and functional dissociations between variably present anterior lateral prefrontal sulci

EH Willbrand, SA Bunge, KS Weiner - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
The lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is an evolutionarily expanded region in humans that is
critical for numerous complex functions, many of which are largely hominoid specific …

Defining Overlooked Structures Reveals New Associations between the Cortex and Cognition in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

SA Maboudian, EH Willbrand, JP Kelly… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Recent work suggests that indentations of the cerebral cortex, or sulci, may be uniquely
vulnerable to atrophy in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and that the posteromedial …

Neuroimaging genomics as a window into the evolution of human sulcal organization

O Goltermann, G Alagöz, B Molz, SE Fisher - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Primate brain evolution has involved prominent expansions of the cerebral cortex, with
largest effects observed in the human lineage. Such expansions were accompanied by fine …

Differential functional organization of amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex networks in macaque and human

C Giacometti, D Autran-Clavagnier, A Dureux… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Over the course of evolution, the amygdala (AMG) and medial frontal cortex (mPFC)
network, involved in behavioral adaptation, underwent structural changes in the old-world …

Sulcal variability in anterior lateral prefrontal cortex contributes to variability in reasoning performance among young adults

EH Willbrand, S Jackson, S Chen… - Brain Structure and …, 2024 - Springer
Identifying structure–function correspondences is a major goal among biologists, cognitive
neuroscientists, and brain mappers. Recent studies have identified relationships between …

A framework to improve the alignment of individual cytoarchitectonic maps of the Julich-Brain atlas using cortical folding landmarks

X Wang, Y Leprince, J Lebenberg, C Langlet… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The segregation of the cortical mantle into cytoarchitectonic areas provides a structural basis
for the specialization of different brain regions. In vivo neuroimaging experiments can be …