How the prefrontal executive got its stripes.

Authors :: Barbas H
García-Cabezas MÁ
Source :: Current opinion in neurobiology [Curr Opin Neurobiol] 2016 Oct; Vol. 40, pp. 125-134. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jul 29.
Publication Year :: 2016
Abstract: Pathways from cortical and subcortical structures give the prefrontal cortex a panoramic view of the sensory environment and the internal milieu of motives and drives. The prefrontal cortex also receives privileged information from the output of the basal ganglia and cerebellum and innervates widely the inhibitory thalamic reticular nucleus that gates thalamo-cortical communication. Connections, in general, are strongly related to the systematic structural variation of the cortex that can be traced to development. Insights from development have profound implications for the special connections of the prefrontal cortex for executive control, learning and memory, and vulnerability in psychiatric and neurologic diseases.<br /> (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)