Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

“about what outcome will occur”. It generally leads to risk aversion. Meta-analytic techniques helped identify four cortical regions associated with the degree of risk during decision making: the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, the posterior parietal cortex, and the anterior insula.…

Schizophrenia Assignment This essay will be focused on a mental illness known as Schizophrenia, which Jonathon is experiencing in the Case Study. It will outline its symptoms, the brain structures of Schizophrenic patients, how neurochemistry may be a possible causative factor in it and how medication can affect the brain structure and neurochemistry to manage symptoms in diagnoses of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a serious chronic mental disorder which is described chiefly by defalcation in…

What Does Neurotic Mean? Neurosis is a mental disorder characterized by excessive anxiety or insecurity. It is so common that if you took all the different types of this disorder and put them together, you would see a huge prevalence rate. This means that a lot of people will suffer from one neurosis or another at some point in their life. Neurotic personality Everyone experiences mental conflict at various points in their life. This type of experience undoubtedly produces anxiety. The…

to psychopathic activity, but damage to the brain has also been found as a reason for psychopathy. According to Andrea L. Glenn and Adrian Raine, “Patients with damage to the ventromedial region of the prefrontal cortex demonstrate symptoms that most closely resemble psychopathic traits. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is a region located in the…

Phineas Gage “was a construction crew worker who was very serious, industrious and energetic when it came to his work ethic” (Carlson, 2014, p. 250). After his accident “he became childish, irresponsible, thoughtless of others, had temper outburst and was unable to make or carry out plans” (Carlson, 2014, p. 250). Because of this dramatic change in behavior, “people said that it looked as if Dr. Jekyll had become Mr. Hyde” (Carlson, 2014, p. 250). “Damage to the vmPFC causes serious and often…

Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States.(Insert source). In general people believe that marijuana is less damaging than other drugs. Recently, there has been a push to legalize cannabis for both medicinal and recreational purposes. In order to be informed should this issue come to a vote, citizens should be aware of the effects marijuana can have on the brain. This paper will review empirical studies examining these effects; specifically concerning memory, decision…

Posttraumatic stress disorder is defined on WebMD as, “a serious condition that can develop after a person has experienced or witnessed a traumatic or terrifying event in which serious physical harm occurred or was threatened (Posttraumatic).” What this definition does not inform you about is the thousands of lives that are affected by PTSD and the countless men and women who have taken their life. The war in Vietnam, the Iraq/Afghanistan conflict, and the advancements in modern combat have and…

those with mild anxiety showed increased D2 values in the left prefrontal regions. According to Muzur, Pace-Schott, & Hobson (2002) the transition from waking to NREM is characterized by deactivation in the frontal cerebral cortex. This deactivation increases with the deepening of NREM sleep and stays the same during the transition from NREM to REM. However, during the onset of REM portions of the ventromedial, limbic-related prefrontal cortex and closely associated medial subcortex are…

weeks. Participants’ brain activity was examined both before and after the trials during which they were exposed to the cues related to the game. The authors found that there was increased brain activity in the anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex in the group with excessive Internet gaming behaviors after six weeks of the playing the games, but not in the control group when exposed to the game cues. These findings are important and suggest that the brain activity of those with Internet…

Treatment of co-morbid alcoholism and PTSD in veterans ? comparison with other drug dependencies 11-15-16 Loggins, K., Gutierrez, C.A., PharmD, Wilcox, R.E., PhD.* Target: Journal of Addiction and Preventive Medicine ABSTRACT Combat instigated PTSD is one of the more complicated psychological conditions that occur in the modern world. To add to the complications of treatment, PTSD is often accompanied by other psychological comorbidities and substance use disorders; of which the most…