Orbitofrontal cortex.

Curr Biol

Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address:

Published: September 2018

The orbitofrontal cortex is a large and heterogeneous cortical area on the ventral surface of the frontal lobe and is intimately involved in emotion and executive function. In this Primer, Peter Rudebeck and Erin Rich summarize our understanding of the mechanisms through which orbitofrontal cortex adaptively shapes decision making and affective behavior.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9253859PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.018DOI Listing

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