Article: All in the cortex.(M.E.M.O)(medial orbitofrontal cortex and consumption)

Article: Linking affect to action; critical contributions of the orbitofrontal cortex.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  June 1, 2008 ;     153 words ......action; critical contributions of the orbitofrontal cortex. Ed. by Geoffrey Schoenbaum et al...specialties have been treating the orbitofrontal cortex subdivision of the brain's prefrontal...chemosensory function, revealing the orbitofrontal cortex through the amygdala and striatum...

Article: Orbitofrontal function and educational attainment.
College Student Journal;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) plays important roles...goal-directed (Cummings, 1995). Orbitofrontal cortex is a subdivision of prefrontal...self-regulation. People with lesions of orbitofrontal cortex exhibit a profound change in...

Article: emotion, scientific aspects
The Oxford Companion to the Body;      700+ words ......x2019;, in a region of the frontal lobe called the orbitofrontal cortex where neurons respond to the taste stimulus only...emotional significance. Then, in structures such as the orbitofrontal cortex and the amygdala (part of the li

Article: The human frontal lobes; functions and disorders, 2d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2007 ;     207 words ......of the frontal lobes, and anatomy, including frontal-subcortical circuits, the dorsolateral and cingulate cortex, the orbitofrontal cortex and the insula, structural and functional asymmetries, gross morphology and architectonics, and evolution of the frontal...

Article: Brain functioning as the ground for spiritual experiences and ethical behavior.
The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......activation of the areas of the brain that stop wrong behavior, called orbitofrontal cortex, after individuals watched violent movies. Activation in the orbitofrontal cortex decreased as participants watched more and more violent movies...

Article: MaggieMoo's has issued a press release quoting scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry in London who have determined that the enjoyable feeling one gets from eating ice cream results from a stimulation of the pleasure zones in the brain.(Last Licks)
Ice Cream Reporter;  March 20, 2006 ;     128 words ......scientists showed an immediate effect on parts of the brain known to activate when people enjoy themselves, including the orbitofrontal cortex, considered the processing area at the front of the brain. After the more-than-willing participants ate vanilla ice cream...

Article: Measuring the executive regulation of emotion with self-rating scales in a nonclinical population.(Author abstract)
The Journal of General Psychology;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......decreased activation of the amygdala and medial orbitofrontal cortex. Subjects watching a sad film had activations...activated right dorsolateral (BA 9) and right orbitofrontal cortex (BA 11). Prefrontal cortex is also involved...

Article: Correlations among measures of executive function and positive psychological attributes in college students.(psychological research)(includes statistical tables)
The Journal of General Psychology;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......suppression of sadness activates right dorsolateral and right orbitofrontal cortex (Levesque, et al., 2003). Ochsner, Bunge, Gross, and...regions, with decreased activation of the amygdala and medial orbitofrontal cortex. Measures of executive function with demonstrated sensitivity...

Article: Reward and decision making in corticobasal ganglia networks.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  September 1, 2007 ;     198 words ......this complexity, covering such topics as the multiple attributes of Pavlovian reward, time-discounted rewards in the orbitofrontal cortex and associated brain circuits, a model and its ability to reward learning and decision making, brain coding of reward...

Article: Brain activity in overeaters similar to drug addicts.(in the news)
ASRT Scanner;  June 1, 2007 ;     445 words ......drug-addicted people. For instance, the brain imaging studies showed that dopamine partly regulates metabolic activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, or OFC, a part of the brain that is key to controlling and planning behavior. In drug-addicted subjects, lower brain...

Article: Video Games Activate Reward Regions of Brain in Men More Than Women, Stanford Study Finds.
Business Wire;  February 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ......gained. (This wasn't the case with women.) Three structures within the reward circuit--the nucleus accumbens, amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex--were also shown to influence each other much more in men than in women. And the better connected this circuit was, the...

Article: Memory Loss
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine;      700+ words ......with memory formation. As of 2003, researchers have identified the areas of the brain known as the hippocampus and the orbitofrontal cortex as the primary locations of memory formation. Free-radical damage. Free-radical molecules destabilize other molecules...

Article: Arterial embolization caused by Zyplast II.(Case Reports)
Journal of Drugs in Dermatology;  January 1, 2003 ;     685 words ......thickness of the tissue leads to a countercurrent of particles in the ophthalmic system. The sudden pallor of the skin in the orbitofrontal cortex region observed in one case can be explained by this anastomosis resulting either in vascular spasm involving the central...