medial prefrontal cortex Archives

New research from Psychological Science

The Insula and Evaluative Processes (http://pss.sagepub.com/content/22/1/80.abstract)
Gary G. Berntson, Greg J. Norman, Antoine Bechara, Joel Bruss, Daniel Tranel, and John T. Cacioppo
The insula has been implicated in evaluative and affective …

The neural basis of the depressive self

Depression is actually defined by specific clinical symptoms such as sadness, difficulty to experience pleasure, sleep problems etc., present for at least two weeks, with impairment of psychosocial functioning. These symptoms guide the physician to …