Talk:Prefrontal cortex

message: I am thinking about integrating more of the executive function discussion into this page, and a discussion around brain function and brain structures. Any thoughts?
The role of the prefrontal cortex in fluid functioning is a topic that needs to be discussed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.22.31.252 (talk) 04:58, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Changes 

message: ===Anatomical Connections===
The article reads generally quite well in many parts. I appreciate that people here took such care to document function and anatomy, and that they found so many sources. What I think could be improved is the section about interconnections. The description is very high-level and from the point of view of (cognitive) psychology. I think, it would be nice to see a description, a-la connectomics, of the anatomical connections, taken, for example, from tracing studies. Ben  T/C  13:41, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interconnections 

message: The article reads generally quite well in many parts. I appreciate that people here took such care to document function and anatomy, and that they found so many sources. What I think could be improved is the section about interconnections. The description is very high-level and from the point of view of (cognitive) psychology. I think, it would be nice to see a description, a-la connectomics, of the anatomical connections, taken, for example, from tracing studies. Ben  T/C  13:41, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Anatomical Connections

message: It's not clear from the image where the prefrontal cortex is  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.178.60.165 (talk) 19:06, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * Actually, if you read the tiny text underneath the picture, it says: "Per BrainInfo, parts of #8, #9, #10, #11, #44, #45, #46, and #47 are all in frontal region." I will change this into prefrontal region. It's not a very good picture, but it does give you some idea of where the prefrontal region is. Lova Falk (talk) 18:01, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

text: You are quite right, however the problem is to find pictures that are free to use... Lova Falk talk 17:49, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does the image show where the Prefrontal cortex is? 

message: I was reading this article to see what it had to say about the evolution of the prefrontal cortex. It seems to me that this is a very important topic, but I only found a brief and cursory mention of it here, without any link to an article with more extensive information.
Al B G (talk) 22:20, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolution 

message: I can't believe no one is saying anything about function!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.67.120.196 (talk) 16:48, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Function 

message: I was reading an article that stated casually that the mPFC is known to be hyperactive in people with depression.  This article states the opposite to be true.  Can anyone elaborate?  
source (noted in paragraph six): http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_24-1-2012-10-39-58#fni-3  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.121.210.155 (talk) 18:19, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  the mPFC and depression 

message: I am not knowledgeable enough to go about attempting to bring acquired brain injury and especially traumatic brain injury (TBI) into the picture. However, in an article which speculates that ADHD could involve prefrontal cortex dysfunction I cannot imagine why the most widely accepted cause of executive function disruption - traumatic brain injury - is not even mentioned.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by QuintBy (talk • contribs) 10:56, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acquired and or Traumatic Brain Injury 

message: Several users have requested a comparison of non-human prefrontal cortices. (Somegeek 19:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparison of non-human prefrontal cortices 

message: could somebody be so kind to explain to a normal dummy why "pre-frontal"? in plane language: before the frontal part...? Having seen where it lies, I would say: just "frontal". so where is the "frontal cortex" as distinct from the pre-frontal one? thanx! --HilmarHansWerner (talk) 17:17, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a guess: probably because it's not the whole front but the "fronter" front. --fs 05:57, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why ''pre''-frontal? 

message: 1. I agree with an above comment that a more detailed evolution section would be interesting.
2. Is it true that the prefrontal cortex isn't fully functional in humans until about the age of 20-ish?
3. Is it true that drug abuse interferes with the development of the area? Are there other factors as well, besides, of course, trauma? 
Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 17:18, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions for those who know. 

message: The table in the article currently seems to say the medial prefrontal cortex and the ventral prefrontal cortex are subsections of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. However, Leary Tangney 2012 p. 640 says that the the dmPFC and vmPFC are subsections of the mPFC. What is the relationship between the vmPFC and the mPFC? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daask (talk • contribs) 19:58, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: In ventromedial prefrontal cortex it is claimed that "not all sources agree on the boundaries of the [vmPFC]", which is probably true even if there's no citation. Whether the vmPFC is part of the mPFC or vice versa is probably a matter of terminology. From first principles it seems like "vmPFC" should designate something more specific than "mPFC", but probably (see vmPFC and its citations) the terms are more often used in the opposide way. Probably we ought to cite some medical terminology standard, or at least an officialy standard textbook, mentioning the source in the main text of the section. Sisima70 (talk) 23:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationship between the vmPFC and the mPFC

message: Please tell the functions of the 6 layers in the prefrontal cortex,especially layers 5 and 6. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.39.101.198 (talk • contribs) 17:40, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: On the Layers of the Prefrontal Cortex