Publications by authors named "R Jenison"
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- The study investigates how the human brain processes meaning and whether it can adjust after losing a key area, the left anterior temporal lobe (ATL), which is thought to be critical for semantics.
- After disconnecting the ATL in two patients during a speech prediction task, researchers found immediate neurophysiological changes in related brain regions, highlighting the ATL's role as a semantic hub.
- There was evidence of quick but only partial compensation in the brain's network, supporting theories on brain adaptability and how it responds to disruptions in neural connections.
Goal-directed behavior is dependent on neuronal activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and extended frontostriatal circuitry. Stress and stress-related disorders are associated with impaired frontostriatal-dependent cognition. Our understanding of the neural mechanisms that underlie stress-related cognitive impairment is limited, with the majority of prior research focused on the PFC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe primate amygdala is a complex consisting of over a dozen nuclei that have been implicated in a host of cognitive functions, individual differences, and psychiatric illnesses. These functions are implemented through distinct connectivity profiles, which have been documented in animals but remain largely unknown in humans. Here we present results from 25 neurosurgical patients who had concurrent electrical stimulation of the amygdala with intracranial electroencephalography (electrical stimulation tract-tracing; es-TT), or fMRI (electrical stimulation fMRI; es-fMRI), methods providing strong inferences about effective connectivity of amygdala subdivisions with the rest of the brain.
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