Since that switch determines whether or not an animal’s internal model of the world influences its behavior, the scientists suspected it might involve a brain region called the anterior cingulate ...

Regions like the precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex were more active ... unified emotion regulated by one brain system. Instead, it is a multifaceted experience influenced by the type ...

So are other major components of the limbic system ... and other substances, in brain areas involved in inhibition and emotion control: the orbitofrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus, and dorsolateral ...

the left ventral pallidum and the right posterior cingulate cortex. The left ventral pallidum is part of the brain’s reward system, which uses neurotransmitters such as dopamine and oxytocin to ...

led to an increase in gray matter density—a measure of the amount of cortical grey matter in a given area — and gray matter volume—the total size of the grey matter— in several brain areas including ...