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SUBMITTER: Riga D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4260491 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Riga Danai D Matos Mariana R MR Glas Annet A Smit August B AB Spijker Sabine S Van den Oever Michel C MC
Frontiers in systems neuroscience 20141209
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is critically involved in numerous cognitive functions, including attention, inhibitory control, habit formation, working memory and long-term memory. Moreover, through its dense interconnectivity with subcortical regions (e.g., thalamus, striatum, amygdala and hippocampus), the mPFC is thought to exert top-down executive control over the processing of aversive and appetitive stimuli. Because the mPFC has been implicated in the processing of a wide range of co ...[more]