Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex

The location of the Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex is marked as "DMPFC"
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Part of Prefrontal Cortex

Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

In mammalian brain anatomy, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex is a section of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). It is involved in creating a sense of the self.[1][2] This sense of self that the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex is involved in is the what Claparede referred to as "me-ness".[2][3] It is also involved in what is called "Theory of mind", or considering the mental states of others.[4] Brain activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex has been shown to be significant in altruism.[5] This region has been shown to be unusually inactive in people exhibiting psychological dissociation.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Gusnard, D. A., Akbudak, E., Shulman, G. L., & Raichle, M. E. (2001). Medial prefrontal cortex and self-referential mental activity: relation to a default mode of brain function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98(7), 4259-4264.
  2. 1 2 Meares, Russell (2012). A dissociation model of borderline personality disorder. New York, NY: W.W. Norton. p. 109. ISBN 9780393705850.
  3. ↑ Claparede. (1911/1951). Recognition and me-ness. In D. Rapaport (Ed.), Organization and pathology of thought: Selected sources (pp. 58-75). New York: Columbia University Press.
  4. ↑ Isoda, M., & Noritake, A. (2015). What makes the dorsomedial frontal cortex active during reading the mental states of others?. Neural basis of social learning, social deciding, and other-regarding preferences, 51.
  5. ↑ Waytz, A., Zaki, J., & Mitchell, J. P. (2012). Response of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex predicts altruistic behavior. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(22), 7646-7650.
  6. ↑ Felmingham, K., Kemp, A. H., Williams, L., Falconer, E., Olivieri, G., Peduto, A., & Bryant, R. (2008). Dissociative responses to conscious and non-conscious fear impact underlying brain function in post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychological medicine, 38(12), 1771-1780.

See also

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