#cingulate

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Because the amygdala processes the information it receives from the thalamus faster than the frontal lobes do, it decides whether incoming information is a threat to our survival even before we are consciously aware of the danger.

"The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma" - Bessel van der Kolk

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Researchers discover dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activity during motivated control reflects the calculation of surprise -- ScienceDaily

Researchers discover dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activity during motivated control reflects the calculation of surprise — ScienceDaily

Humans control their behavior in numerous ways, from stopping the urge pick at a scab to resisting the impulse to eat an entire box of chocolates. Suppressing undesired behavior, referred to as “cognitive control,” traditionally has been linked to the functioning of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) in the front of the brain. Activity in dACC is observed across a variety of contexts,…

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Neuroimaging study of brain networks maps differences in children with OCD.

Neuroimaging study of brain networks maps differences in children with OCD. Thoughts health innovators?

A new study by researchers from Wayne State University, University of Toronto and University of Michigan demonstrates that communication between some of the brain’s most important centres is altered in children with obsessive-compulsive disorder.  The research sheds significant light on understanding how brain networks contribute to obsessive-compulsive disorder in children.  The opensource study…

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Cortico-limbic morphology separates tinnitus from tinnitus distress

Authors:

Amber M. Leaver, Anna Seydell-Greenwald, Ted Turesky, Susan Morgan, Hung J. Kim and Josef P. Rauschecker

Link:

http://www.frontiersin.org/systems_neuroscience/abstract/22303