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How the prefrontal executive got its stripes
- Source :
- Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 40:125-134
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Pathways from cortical and subcortical structures give the prefrontal cortex a panoramic view of the sensory environment and the internal milieu of motives and drives. The prefrontal cortex also receives privileged information from the output of the basal ganglia and cerebellum and innervates widely the inhibitory thalamic reticular nucleus that gates thalamo-cortical communication. Connections, in general, are strongly related to the systematic structural variation of the cortex that can be traced to development. Insights from development have profound implications for the special connections of the prefrontal cortex for executive control, learning and memory, and vulnerability in psychiatric and neurologic diseases.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Prefrontal Cortex
Sensory system
Article
Basal Ganglia
Executive Function
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Memory
Cerebellum
Cortex (anatomy)
Basal ganglia
medicine
Humans
Learning
Prefrontal cortex
Self-reference effect
Thalamic reticular nucleus
Working memory
General Neuroscience
030104 developmental biology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Consumer neuroscience
Psychology
Neuroscience
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09594388
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cde36df8d77756ccb4f43a658b4b4ffe
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2016.07.003