All Relations between executive functions and prefrontal cortex

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Antonio Verdejo-García, Francisca López-Torrecillas, Carmen Orozco Giménez, Miguel Pérez-Garcí. Clinical implications and methodological challenges in the study of the neuropsychological correlates of cannabis, stimulant, and opioid abuse. Neuropsychology review. vol 14. issue 1. 2004-09-07. PMID:15260137. nevertheless, in recent years neuropsychological research on substance abuse has focused on the study of impairments in the executive functions linked to the prefrontal cortex and their influence on the personality, cognitions, and behaviors of the substance abusers. 2004-09-07 2023-08-12 Not clear
James A Waltz, Barbara J Knowlton, Keith J Holyoak, Kyle B Boone, Carla Back-Madruga, Susan McPherson, Donna Masterman, Tiffany Chow, Jeffrey L Cummings, Bruce L Mille. Relational integration and executive function in Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology. vol 18. issue 2. 2004-08-10. PMID:15099152. executive functions depend on the ability to represent relations between objects and events, and the prefrontal cortex provides the neural substrate for this capacity. 2004-08-10 2023-08-12 human
Patricia Ohrmann, Anette Kersting, Thomas Suslow, Judith Lalee-Mentzel, Uta-Susan Donges, Martin Fiebich, Volker Arolt, Walter Heindel, Bettina Pfleidere. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in anorexia nervosa: correlations with cognition. Neuroreport. vol 15. issue 3. 2004-05-20. PMID:15094521. performance in the divided attention task was correlated with naa and cr in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, while executive functioning and depressive symptomatology were associated with glx levels in the anterior cingulate. 2004-05-20 2023-08-12 Not clear
J Hornak, J O'Doherty, J Bramham, E T Rolls, R G Morris, P R Bullock, C E Polke. Reward-related reversal learning after surgical excisions in orbito-frontal or dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in humans. Journal of cognitive neuroscience. vol 16. issue 3. 2004-05-17. PMID:15072681. the results thus show that the orbital prefrontal cortex is required bilaterally for monitoring changes in the reward value of stimuli and using this to guide behavior in the task; whereas the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, if it produces deficits in the task, does so for reasons related to executive functions, such as the control of attention. 2004-05-17 2023-08-12 human
Marjan Jahanshahi, John Rowe, Rebecca Fulle. Cognitive executive function in dystonia. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society. vol 18. issue 12. 2004-04-28. PMID:14673884. the aim of this study was to investigate the functional significance of frontal hyperactivity demonstrated in dystonia in imaging studies by examining executive function and working memory, in which the prefrontal cortex is known to be involved. 2004-04-28 2023-08-12 human
Katrin Heyder, Boris Suchan, Irene Dau. Cortico-subcortical contributions to executive control. Acta psychologica. vol 115. issue 2-3. 2004-03-19. PMID:14962404. this paper focuses on information processing related to executive functions by the pfc and related subcortical regions. 2004-03-19 2023-08-12 human
Andrey P Anokhin, Andrew C Heath, Angela Ralan. Genetic influences on frontal brain function: WCST performance in twins. Neuroreport. vol 14. issue 15. 2004-01-05. PMID:14561932. the wisconsin card sorting test (wcst) is one of the most widely used assessments of executive functioning related to prefrontal cortex. 2004-01-05 2023-08-12 Not clear
Y Chudasama, Trevor W Robbin. Dissociable contributions of the orbitofrontal and infralimbic cortex to pavlovian autoshaping and discrimination reversal learning: further evidence for the functional heterogeneity of the rodent frontal cortex. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. vol 23. issue 25. 2003-10-14. PMID:14507977. the findings are discussed in the context of dissociable executive functions in ventral sectors of the rat prefrontal cortex. 2003-10-14 2023-08-12 rat
Guy N Elston, Maria C González-Alb. Parvalbumin-, calbindin-, and calretinin-immunoreactive neurons in the prefrontal cortex of the owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus): a standardized quantitative comparison with sensory and motor areas. Brain, behavior and evolution. vol 62. issue 1. 2003-09-24. PMID:12907857. however, there are as yet few standardized quantitative data regarding how the inhibitory circuitry in prefrontal cortex (pfc), which is thought to be involved in executive functions such as cognition, emotion and decision making, compares to that in other cortical areas. 2003-09-24 2023-08-12 monkey
Joaquín M Fuste. Frontal lobe and cognitive development. Journal of neurocytology. vol 31. issue 3-5. 2003-09-12. PMID:12815254. the most general executive function of the lateral prefrontal cortex is the temporal organization of goal-directed actions in the domains of behavior, cognition, and language. 2003-09-12 2023-08-12 human
L Redondo Vergé, R G Brown, J Chacó. [Executive dysfunction in Huntington's disease]. Revista de neurologia. vol 32. issue 10. 2003-08-05. PMID:11424047. these cells are connected with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is an area involved in cognitive processes concerning attention and executive function, forming part of one of the cortico-striatal circuits. 2003-08-05 2023-08-12 Not clear
C H Klein, A Raschke, A Brandenbusc. Development of pro- and antisaccades in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and healthy controls. Psychophysiology. vol 40. issue 1. 2003-06-23. PMID:12756978. confirming barkley's (1997) neuropsychological theory of adhd, these results altogether point to alterations in "executive functions" in adhd patients that are presumably supported by frontal lobe structures, in particular the lateral prefrontal cortex and the frontal eye fields. 2003-06-23 2023-08-12 Not clear
Stan B Floresco, Anthony A Grac. Gating of hippocampal-evoked activity in prefrontal cortical neurons by inputs from the mediodorsal thalamus and ventral tegmental area. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. vol 23. issue 9. 2003-06-19. PMID:12736363. projections from the hippocampus, the mediodorsal thalamus (md), and the ventral tegmental area (vta) form interconnected neural circuits that converge in the prefrontal cortex (pfc) to participate in the regulation of executive functions. 2003-06-19 2023-08-12 rat
Orsola Gambini, Arturo Campana, Giacomo Garghentini, Silvio Scaron. No evidence of a homogeneous frontal neuropsychological profile in a sample of schizophrenic subjects. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences. vol 15. issue 1. 2003-04-17. PMID:12556571. the authors obtained a frontal functions profile for 81 schizophrenic patients using six neuropsychological tests that evaluate the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex functions, i.e., working memory, executive functions, and strategic performance. 2003-04-17 2023-08-12 human
Matcheri S Keshavan, Vaibhav A Diwadkar, Stephen M Spencer, Keith A Harenski, Beatriz Luna, John A Sweene. A preliminary functional magnetic resonance imaging study in offspring of schizophrenic parents. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry. vol 26. issue 6. 2003-03-26. PMID:12452537. studies of high-risk offspring (hr) of schizophrenic patients have found abnormalities in attention, working memory and executive functions, suggesting impaired integrity of the prefrontal cortex and related brain regions. 2003-03-26 2023-08-12 human
Cheryl L Grady, Anthony R McIntosh, Sania Beig, Michelle L Keightley, Hana Burian, Sandra E Blac. Evidence from functional neuroimaging of a compensatory prefrontal network in Alzheimer's disease. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. vol 23. issue 3. 2003-02-21. PMID:12574428. this provides the most direct evidence to date that ad patients can use additional neural resources in prefrontal cortex, presumably those mediating executive functions, to compensate for losses attributable to the degenerative process of the disease. 2003-02-21 2023-08-12 Not clear
Marian Gomez Beldarrain, Jordan Grafman, Ibone Ruiz de Velasco, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Carlos Garcia-Monco, Jordan Gafma. Prefrontal lesions impair the implicit and explicit learning of sequences on visuomotor tasks. Experimental brain research. vol 142. issue 4. 2002-12-17. PMID:11845248. (1) to verify whether the prefrontal cortex (pfc) is specifically involved in visuomotor sequence learning as opposed to other forms of motor learning and (2) to establish the role of executive functions in visuomotor sequence learning. 2002-12-17 2023-08-12 Not clear
U Leonards, V Ibanez, P Giannakopoulo. The role of stimulus type in age-related changes of visual working memory. Experimental brain research. vol 146. issue 2. 2002-12-04. PMID:12195519. moreover, these results suggest that working memory decline cannot be solely explained by increasing vulnerability in prefrontal cortex related to executive functioning, but indicate an age-related decrease in a visual short-term buffer, possibly located in the temporal cortex. 2002-12-04 2023-08-12 human
Mark Brosnan, James Demetre, Stephen Hamill, Kate Robson, Haidee Shepherd, Gerard Cod. Executive functioning in adults and children with developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia. vol 40. issue 12. 2002-11-29. PMID:12208010. the findings taken as a whole suggest that dyslexic individuals show deficiencies in executive functions relating to inhibition of distractors and to sequencing of events, a set of tasks associated with left prefrontal cortex functioning in the acquired neuropsychology literature. 2002-11-29 2023-08-12 Not clear
Leanne Tamm, Vinod Menon, Allan L Reis. Maturation of brain function associated with response inhibition. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. vol 41. issue 10. 2002-10-29. PMID:12364845. to investigate the developmental trajectory of response inhibition and, more specifically, whether there is a dissociation of function in the prefrontal cortex over the course of development of executive function and associated response inhibition abilities. 2002-10-29 2023-08-12 Not clear