All Relations between executive functions and prefrontal cortex

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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
Alfred Barth, Andreas W Schaffer, Wolf Osterode, Robert Winker, Christophoros Konnaris, Eva Valic, Christian Wolf, Hugo W Rüdige. Reduced cognitive abilities in lead-exposed men. International archives of occupational and environmental health. vol 75. issue 6. 2002-10-03. PMID:12070635. since it is still controversial whether-low-to moderate long-term lead exposure below current threshold values causes neurobehavioural deficits in adults, we investigated executive functions of the prefrontal cortex, attention, and visuospatial and visuomotor functioning in lead-exposed subjects. 2002-10-03 2023-08-12 human
Dara S Manoach, Kristen A Lindgren, Mariya V Cherkasova, Donald C Goff, Elkan F Halpern, James Intriligator, Jason J S Barto. Schizophrenic subjects show deficient inhibition but intact task switching on saccadic tasks. Biological psychiatry. vol 51. issue 10. 2002-06-20. PMID:12007456. schizophrenic patients have executive function deficits, presumably on the basis of prefrontal cortex dysfunction. 2002-06-20 2023-08-12 human
Clancy Blai. School readiness. Integrating cognition and emotion in a neurobiological conceptualization of children's functioning at school entry. The American psychologist. vol 57. issue 2. 2002-04-19. PMID:11899554. direct links are proposed among emotionality, use-dependent synaptic stabilization related to the prefrontal cortex, the development of executive function abilities, and academic and social competence in school settings. 2002-04-19 2023-08-12 human
Masataka Watanabe, Kazuo Hikosaka, Masamichi Sakagami, Shu-ichiro Shirakaw. Coding and monitoring of motivational context in the primate prefrontal cortex. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. vol 22. issue 6. 2002-03-27. PMID:11896178. most studies on context-dependent processing in the prefrontal cortex have been concerned with such executive functions, but the prefrontal cortex is also involved in motivational operations. 2002-03-27 2023-08-12 monkey
K A Espy, P M Kaufmann, M L Glisk. New procedures to assess executive functions in preschool children. The Clinical neuropsychologist. vol 15. issue 1. 2002-01-25. PMID:11778578. executive functions are difficult to assess in preschool children, yet the preschool period is particularly important, both in the development of behavioral control and of the brain, particularly the prefrontal cortex. 2002-01-25 2023-08-12 Not clear