Executive dysfunction encompasses altered decision-making, attentional deficits, excessive risk-taking behaviours, and inefficient planning. Alongside memory loss, these cognitive deficits are amongst ...

Acetylcholine (ACh) release in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is a major contributor to the balance between attention and inhibitory control, which is crucial for the execution of adaptive ...

Neuronal sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain encode critical information associated with a procedural rule. These sequences can be explored and leveraged as novel biomarkers for ...

A new Nature Neuroscience study reveals that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex regulates how the hippocampus links related memories, preventing false associations. Researchers used advanced imaging ...

When a writer comes up with a striking metaphor, when an engineer solves a tricky problem by combining seemingly unrelated tools, or when a child invents the rules of a new game, what happens in the ...