The mouse brain is half as big as expected for ... and which helps to conduct movement and planning — have expanded too. The prefrontal cortex has a similar structure in both chimps and humans ...

For female mice, a connection between two specific brain areas (the medial prefrontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens) played a key role. The study found that in male mice, a different connection ...

The researchers measured anxiety in mouse models with two tests ... to highlight the neurons activated by DOI in the medial prefrontal cortex — a brain region known to be involved in reducing ...

Self-control is primarily rooted in the prefrontal cortex—the planning, problem-solving, and decision making center of the brain—which is significantly larger in humans than in other mammals.

B.S., Biology: University of Science and Technology of China, 1996 M.S., Biology: University of Science and Technology of China, 1998 Dr. Li’s research program focuses on studying functions and ...

Huang and colleagues examined neural responses in mouse anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) during a discrimination-avoidance task. The authors present useful findings that ACC neurons encode primarily ...