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MPFC
(redirected from Medial Prefrontal Cortex)

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mPFCMedial Prefrontal Cortex
MPFCMonty Python's Flying Circus
MPFCMissing Parameter in Function Call (software fault)
MPFCMusic Player for Console


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The researchers say that this supports their theory that learned emotional responses centered in the medial prefrontal cortex play a key role in the experience of chronic, or neuropathic, pain.
TB medication offers pain relief by Science News
5) Previous studies of addictive behavior implicate abnormal functioning in a network of brain regions involved in reward-based decision-making (RBDM) that include the orbital and medial prefrontal cortex.
Neuropsychological performance, impulsivity, and comorbid psychiatric ... by Middleton, Reece / Southern Medical Journal
Ironically, older individuals' reliance on the medial prefrontal cortex to regulate emotions comes as aging kills cells in this area.
Older but mellower: aging brain shifts gears to emotional advantage by Bower, B. / Science News
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