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How the prefrontal executive got its stripes

Authors :
Miguel Ángel García-Cabezas
Helen Barbas
Source :
Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 40:125-134
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2016.

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.

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