The study from the Pozzo-Miller lab, “Ventral hippocampal projections to the medial prefrontal cortex regulate social memory,” was recently published in eLife. Pozzo mentored Mary Phillips, Ph.D., who ...

The ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) appears to structure one’s “self.” Consider the difference between thinking about an event unrelated to one in which you were involved – say, the date ...

As the research participants thought about future scenarios, optimists displayed similar neural patterns, but pessimists ...

Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious perception by activating the prefrontal cortex. Their findings enhance ...

This 3-D projection of a transparent brain shows the regions of activation: the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is in red, and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is in green.

The ventral-medial prefrontal cortex (located just a few inches behind the bridge of your nose) responds to both food- and music-induced pleasure and then informs the ventral striatum.

More information: Benjamin Ehret et al, Population-level coding of avoidance learning in medial prefrontal cortex, Nature Neuroscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-024-01704-5 ...

Medial prefrontal cortex regions involved when the brain decides whether to continue a behavior. Aug 28, 2020. Study unveils a cortico-amygdala neural substrate supporting fear extinction via ...