Prefrontal cortex and depression

DA Pizzagalli, AC Roberts - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) has emerged as one of the regions most consistently impaired in
major depressive disorder (MDD). Although functional and structural PFC abnormalities …

[HTML][HTML] The Aversive Lens: Stress effects on the prefrontal-cingulate cortical pathways that regulate emotion

AFT Arnsten, MKP Joyce, AC Roberts - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract ARNSTEN, AFT, MKP Joyce and AC Roberts. The Aversive Lens: Stress effects on
the prefrontal-cingulate cortical pathways that regulate emotion. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV …

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex and emotion regulation: lost in translation?

L Alexander, CM Wood… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Neuroimaging studies implicate the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in a wide range
of emotional and cognitive functions, and changes in activity within vmPFC have been linked …

Neural network of social interaction observation in marmosets

JC Cléry, Y Hori, DJ Schaeffer, RS Menon, S Everling - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
A crucial component of social cognition is to observe and understand the social interactions
of other individuals. A promising nonhuman primate model for investigating the neural basis …

Modelling behaviors relevant to brain disorders in the nonhuman primate: Are we there yet?

JT Scott, JA Bourne - Progress in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen a profound resurgence of activity with nonhuman primates (NHPs)
to model human brain disorders. From marmosets to macaques, the study of NHP species …

A decision architecture for safety computations

SM Tashjian, TD Zbozinek, D Mobbs - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Accurately estimating safety is critical to pursuing nondefensive survival behaviors.
However, little attention has been paid to how the human brain computes safety. We …

[PDF][PDF] Controlling one's world: Identification of sub-regions of primate PFC underlying goal-directed behavior

LY Duan, NK Horst, SAW Cranmore, N Horiguchi… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Impaired detection of causal relationships between actions and their outcomes can lead to
maladaptive behavior. However, causal roles of specific prefrontal cortex (PFC) sub-regions …

[HTML][HTML] Subcallosal area 25: its responsivity to the stress hormone cortisol and its opposing effects on appetitive motivation in marmosets

RB Tizkar, L McIver, CM Wood, AC Roberts - Neurobiology of Stress, 2024 - Elsevier
Aberrant activity in caudal subcallosal anterior cingulate cortex (scACC) is implicated in
depression and anxiety symptomatology, with its normalisation a putative biomarker of …

Differential effects of the inactivation of anterior and posterior orbitofrontal cortex on affective responses to proximal and distal threat, and reward anticipation in the …

ZM Stawicka, R Massoudi, L Oikonomidis… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Structural and functional abnormalities of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) have been
implicated in affective disorders that manifest anxiety-related symptoms. However, research …

Evaluation of advances in cortical development using model systems

PR Nano, A Bhaduri - Developmental Neurobiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with that of even the closest primates, the human cortex displays a high degree of
specialization and expansion that largely emerges developmentally. Although decades of …