Cingulate cortex

person's blood pressure and increases your heart rate. The hypothalamus brings signals to the pituitary gland near the bottom of the brain. This tells the brain to release factors that have traveled through the bloodstream and stimulated the adrenal cortex to make a stress hormone called cortisol. Stress has many bad effects on the brain and its ability to control the body, including: damaging the brain, causing memory impairments, resulting in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and…

The current literature suggests that Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) regulates the areas of the brain implicated on self-regulation and self-directed attention and behavior1. The activation of such areas of the brain contributes reducing stress during the emotion regulation, improving anxiety and mood symptoms in Depression and Anxiety Disorders2. A key aspect in these disorders is the rumination and the focus on the future and the personal worries, keeping the person away from the…

The first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of hypnosis is usually a magician convincing a person to act like a chicken. Hypnosis, however, is a real approach that doctors can use to treat pain, depression, anxiety, phobias, and more. Hypnosis is a state in which a person appears to be under a trance and is extremely concentrated (Brandt, 2012). It is not a new concept. In fact, hypnosis was used by the ancient Egyptians over 2,000 years ago (healing power, 2006). In the 1770s, an…

potential that these emotions exist in the frontal cortex and more specifically in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex. Social Implications on Self-Conscious Emotions “Self-conscious emotions can be fully understood only by carefully attending to the social goals that drive them,” (Baldwin & Baccus, n.d., p. 1). The nature of self-conscious emotion is dependent on the nature of an underlying social goal. Social behavior can be evaluated both explicitly and implicitly when compared to…

In the present study, we anticipated that brain regions in prefrontal cortex may be the neural basis of the relation between TP and delay discounting. Individual differences in diverse cognitive functions can be reliably inferred from neuroanatomical structure (Gaser and Schlaug, 2003; Gilaie-Dotan et al., 2013; Gilaiedotan…

emotions as a function of its strong interconnectivity in relation to other structures of the ventral system. Specifically they found that in anorexic patients an increase in the activation of the amygdala alongside a decrease in activity of the cingulate cortex could possible result in a negative feedback loop; this loop is thought to comprise the feelings of fullness an AN individual will experience whether or not they have eaten. Similarly hyper-activity of the amygdala has been observed in…

The functions of the frontal lobe include planning, organizing, strategizing, as well as initiating, shifting, and sustaining attention. It is sometimes referred to as the “executive” part of the brain. The prefrontal cortex is found at the anterior section of this lobe. The parietal lobes are primarily responsible for receiving and processing sensory input. The temporal lobes deal with functions of language, emotion, and memory. The hippocampus is in the medial temporal…

Antisocial personality Disorder (ASPD) is the most reliable personality disorder in terms of criteria. People with this disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others harshly or with callous indifference. They show no guilt or remorse for their behavior. (Mayo Clinic 2017). There are a very high rate of criminals diagnosed and undiagnosed in prisons. Substance abuse such as alcohol and drugs are used at a proportionally high rate among those with ASPD. Overall individuals with ASPD are…

Richard Ridderinkhof and his peers studied what they named the brain 's "oops" response which can be electronically monitored in a part of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)."We have known for some time that the anterior cingulate cortex is heavily involved in judgment," Ridderinkhof said. "With the anterior cingulate cortex, there is this component that you can see when you record an EEG [electroencephalogram].…

dorsal visual stream which is centered on the dorsal posterior and frontal cortex [2]. Disruptions in the pathway resulting from attentional fatigue have been associated with difficulties in attending and separating desired information from the distracting aspects of novel incoming stimuli (Van Der Linden, & Eling, 2006). Further evidence derived from functional connectivity analysis has revealed that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is active while an individual directes their attention to…