All Relations between executive functions and prefrontal cortex

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Soo-Yong Park, Maren Reinl, Nadja Schot. Effects of acute exercise at different intensities on fine motor-cognitive dual-task performance while walking: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. The European journal of neuroscience. 2021-05-02. PMID:33876859. to our knowledge, these results provide the first empirical evidence using a mobile neuroimaging approach that both hiie and mce improve executive function during walking, likely mediated by increased activation of the task-related area of the prefrontal cortex and the ability to effectively use, among other things, high fitness levels as neural enrichment resources. 2021-05-02 2023-08-13 Not clear
Takehide Kimura, Fuminari Kaneko, Takashi Nagamin. The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Dual-Task Interference Depend on the Dual-Task Content. Frontiers in human neuroscience. vol 15. 2021-04-13. PMID:33841121. we expected that the stroop task would recruit the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlpfc) and require involvement of executive function to greater extent than the word task. 2021-04-13 2023-08-13 Not clear
Joshua Henk Balsters, Valerio Zerbi, Jerome Sallet, Nicole Wenderoth, Rogier B Mar. Primate homologs of mouse cortico-striatal circuits. eLife. vol 9. 2021-03-31. PMID:32298231. these unassigned voxels were localised to the caudate nucleus and anterior putamen, overlapping with executive function and social/language regions of the striatum and connected to prefrontal-projecting cerebellar lobules and anterior prefrontal cortex, forming circuits that seem to be unique for non-human primates and humans. 2021-03-31 2023-08-13 mouse
Brittany L Smith, Collin J Laaker, Kelsey R Lloyd, Adam R Hiltz, Teresa M Reye. Adolescent microglia play a role in executive function in male mice exposed to perinatal high fat diet. Brain, behavior, and immunity. vol 84. 2021-03-12. PMID:31765789. because the prefrontal cortex (pfc), which plays a key role in executive function, undergoes substantial postnatal adolescent pruning and microglia are actively involved in synaptic refinement, we hypothesized that microglia may play a role in mediating changes in brain development after maternal hf diet, with a specific focus on microglial activity during adolescence. 2021-03-12 2023-08-13 mouse
William K Lloyd, Jayne Morriss, Birthe Macdonald, Karin Joanknecht, Julie Nihouarn, Carien M van Reeku. Longitudinal change in executive function is associated with impaired top-down frontolimbic regulation during reappraisal in older adults. NeuroImage. vol 225. 2021-03-08. PMID:33164856. networks in the prefrontal cortex (pfc) that are important for executive function are also engaged in adaptive responding to negative events. 2021-03-08 2023-08-13 human
William K Lloyd, Jayne Morriss, Birthe Macdonald, Karin Joanknecht, Julie Nihouarn, Carien M van Reeku. Longitudinal change in executive function is associated with impaired top-down frontolimbic regulation during reappraisal in older adults. NeuroImage. vol 225. 2021-03-08. PMID:33164856. we hypothesised one of two associations with decreasing executive function over time: 1) a decreased ability to reappraise reflected in decreased pfc and increased amygdala activation, or 2) a neural compensation mechanism characterised by increased pfc activation but no differential amygdala activation. 2021-03-08 2023-08-13 human
William K Lloyd, Jayne Morriss, Birthe Macdonald, Karin Joanknecht, Julie Nihouarn, Carien M van Reeku. Longitudinal change in executive function is associated with impaired top-down frontolimbic regulation during reappraisal in older adults. NeuroImage. vol 225. 2021-03-08. PMID:33164856. neither of the two hypotheses relating to brain function were completely supported, with the findings indicating a steeper decline in executive function associated with both increased pfc and increased left amygdala activity when reappraising negative stimuli. 2021-03-08 2023-08-13 human
William K Lloyd, Jayne Morriss, Birthe Macdonald, Karin Joanknecht, Julie Nihouarn, Carien M van Reeku. Longitudinal change in executive function is associated with impaired top-down frontolimbic regulation during reappraisal in older adults. NeuroImage. vol 225. 2021-03-08. PMID:33164856. in addition, white matter integrity of the uncinate fasciculus, a primary white matter tract connecting the amygdala and ventromedial areas of pfc, was lower in those individuals who demonstrated a greater decrease in executive function. 2021-03-08 2023-08-13 human
Ya R Panikratova, I S Lebedeva, O Yu Sokolov, A D Rumshiskaya, D A Kupriyanov, N V Kost, N F Myasoedo. Functional Connectomic Approach to Studying Selank and Semax Effects. Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections. vol 490. issue 1. 2021-02-25. PMID:32342318. the rois included amygdala (one of the key regions for the regulation of anxiety) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlpfc; the key region for executive functions, including working memory) in the right and left hemisphere. 2021-02-25 2023-08-13 human
Samantha M Adler, Milena Girotti, David A Morila. Optogenetically-induced long term depression in the rat orbitofrontal cortex ameliorates stress-induced reversal learning impairment. Neurobiology of stress. vol 13. 2021-02-23. PMID:33344713. cognitive flexibility is a higher-order executive function that requires plasticity in neuronal circuits of the prefrontal cortex. 2021-02-23 2023-08-13 rat
Francesco Petrelli, Glenn Dallérac, Luca Pucci, Corrado Calì, Tamara Zehnder, Sébastien Sultan, Salvatore Lecca, Andrea Chicca, Andrei Ivanov, Cédric S Asensio, Vidar Gundersen, Nicolas Toni, Graham William Knott, Fulvio Magara, Jürg Gertsch, Frank Kirchhoff, Nicole Déglon, Bruno Giros, Robert H Edwards, Jean-Pierre Mothet, Paola Bezz. Dysfunction of homeostatic control of dopamine by astrocytes in the developing prefrontal cortex leads to cognitive impairments. Molecular psychiatry. vol 25. issue 4. 2021-02-17. PMID:30127471. conditional deletion of vmat2 in astrocytes postnatally produces loss of pfc da homeostasis, leading to defective synaptic transmission and plasticity as well as impaired executive functions. 2021-02-17 2023-08-13 Not clear
Hongliang Lu, Yue Gong, Peng Huang, Yajuan Zhang, Zhihua Guo, Xia Zhu, Xuqun Yo. Effect of Repeated Anodal HD-tDCS on Executive Functions: Evidence From a Pilot and Single-Blinded fNIRS Study. Frontiers in human neuroscience. vol 14. 2021-02-06. PMID:33536886. executive functions are of vital importance in the process of active cognition, which is thought to be associated with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlpfc). 2021-02-06 2023-08-13 human
Ruiz-Gutiérrez José, Arias-Sánchez Samuel, Martín-Monzón Isabe. Neuropsychology of executive functions in patients with focal lesion in the prefrontal cortex: A systematic review. Brain and cognition. vol 146. 2021-02-02. PMID:33221658. neuropsychology of executive functions in patients with focal lesion in the prefrontal cortex: a systematic review. 2021-02-02 2023-08-13 Not clear
Silvia Solís-Ortiz, Erika G González-Pére. Slow electroencephalographic oscillations and behavioral measures as predictors of high executive processing in early postmenopausal females: A discriminant analysis approach. Brain and cognition. vol 145. 2021-01-25. PMID:32911233. there are postmenopausal females who show high performance while others display low performance in executive function, modulated by the prefrontal cortex. 2021-01-25 2023-08-13 Not clear
Marianna Alesi, Giulia Giordano, Marcello Giaccone, Michele Basile, Sebastiano Costa, Antonino Bianc. Effects of the Enriched Sports Activities-Program on Executive Functions in Italian Children. Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology. vol 5. issue 2. 2021-01-22. PMID:33467242. this role is played in both the structural domain, prefrontal cortex area, and in the functional domain, involving the higher cognitive functions, including the executive functions (ef). 2021-01-22 2023-08-13 Not clear
Tatsuhiro Ayabe, Rena Ohya, Yasuhisa An. β-lactolin, a whey-derived glycine-threonine-tryptophan-tyrosine lactotetrapeptide, improves prefrontal cortex-associated reversal learning in mice. Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry. vol 84. issue 5. 2021-01-07. PMID:31928148. the supplementation with a whey digest rich in β-lactolin improves memory retrieval and executive function in a clinical trial, but the effect of β-lactolin on prefrontal cortex (pfc)-associated cognitive function was unclear. 2021-01-07 2023-08-13 mouse
Charlotte M Teigset, Christine Mohn, Bjørn Rishovd Run. Perinatal complications and executive dysfunction in early-onset schizophrenia. BMC psychiatry. vol 20. issue 1. 2020-12-21. PMID:32131788. executive function is mainly mediated by the prefrontal cortex, an area that matures last during pregnancy. 2020-12-21 2023-08-13 Not clear
Yanting Yao, Mengmeng Wu, Lina Wang, Longnian Lin, Jiamin X. Phase Coupled Firing of Prefrontal Parvalbumin Interneuron With High Frequency Oscillations. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience. vol 14. 2020-12-17. PMID:33324170. the prefrontal cortex (pfc) plays a central role in executive functions and inhibitory control over many cognitive behaviors. 2020-12-17 2023-08-13 Not clear
Huihui Wang, Yongqing Wu, Ruiling Fang, Jian Sa, Zhi Li, Hongyan Cao, Yuehua Cu. Time-Varying Gene Network Analysis of Human Prefrontal Cortex Development. Frontiers in genetics. vol 11. 2020-12-12. PMID:33304381. the prefrontal cortex (pfc) constitutes a large part of the human central nervous system and is essential for the normal social affection and executive function of humans and other primates. 2020-12-12 2023-08-13 human
Katarzyna Bobrowicz, Mikael Johansson, Mathias Osvat. Great apes selectively retrieve relevant memories to guide action. Scientific reports. vol 10. issue 1. 2020-12-11. PMID:32724158. this is considered an expression of an executive function responsible for suppressing irrelevant memories, associated with the prefrontal cortex. 2020-12-11 2023-08-13 Not clear