Functional connectivity between the putamen and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) correlated positively with BMI, whereas that of amygdala with pallidum and lingual gyrus was nonlinearly ...

The nerve cell connections between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are critical in ... such as CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), take static pictures of the brain to ...

The researchers focused on the amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) circuit ... They also corrected for potential biases related to MRI quality and participant movement during scans.

But only the amygdala was significantly more ... specifically the posterior cingulate cortex and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for the predicted likely and unlikely choices of others ...

The first is the prefrontal cortex, the logical part of the brain. It analyzes the joke, trying to understand its meaning and context. The second is the amygdala, the emotional part of the brain.

Many of these functions are associated with neural structures in the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala, yet there is little ...

As teens continue to develop, the emotional area of the brain - the amygdala - develops sooner than the part of the brain needed for self control and decision making - the prefrontal cortex.