PREFRONTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prefrontal mean? 

• PREFRONTAL (adjective)
  The adjective PREFRONTAL has 1 sense:

1. anterior to a frontal structure

  Familiarity information: PREFRONTAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREFRONTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anterior to a frontal structure

Context example:

prefrontal lobes

Similar:

anterior (of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body)

 Context examples 

Gut microbes seem to influence miRNAs in the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.

(New Light on Link between Gut Bacteria, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the present study, two distinct parts of the medial prefrontal cortex were important for the Uncanny Valley.

(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)

The prefrontal cortex is the seat of higher order functions such as language, social behavior, mood, and attention, and which also helps regulate emotions, and more primitive areas of the brain.

(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)

The study conducted at the University of Vermont and Yale University found that obese children had a thinner prefrontal cortex than children of normal weight.

(Obesity Can Affect Kids’ Working Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Cognitive flexibility is a major deficit in patients with OCD and is related to the the lateral prefrontal cortex.

(Deep brain stimulation may significantly improve OCD symptoms, University of Cambridge)

One region, in the visual cortex, encoded images, while a region in the prefrontal cortex signaled their category membership.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

In the brain, MRs are mainly located in the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex — two key brain areas involved in the development and maintenance of AUD.

(NIH findings link aldosterone with alcohol use disorder, National Institutes of Health)

And, crucially, they use a similar prefrontal control mechanism as we do.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

These findings suggest that seizures may alter how the prefrontal cortex responds to hippocampal activity and thus interfere with normal memory consolidation.

(Seizures disrupt memory network, NIH)

Increasing levels of BDNF in the ventromedial portion of the prefrontal cortex, a brain region involved in compulsive drug and alcohol seeking, returned the mice to moderate levels of alcohol intake.

(New study identifies gene variant linked to compulsive drinking, NIH)