BMC Medicine,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
20(1)
Published: Nov. 3, 2022
Abstract
Background
Gestational
age
(GA)
is
associated
with
later
cognition
and
behavior.
However,
it
unclear
how
specific
cognitive
domains
brain
structural
development
varies
the
stepwise
change
of
gestational
duration.
Methods
This
large-scale
longitudinal
cohort
study
analyzed
11,878
early
adolescents’
volume
maps
at
9–10
years
(baseline)
5685
11–12
(a
2-year
follow-up)
from
Adolescent
Brain
Cognitive
Development
(ABCD)
study.
According
to
age,
adolescents
were
divided
into
five
categorical
groups:
≤
33
weeks,
34–35
36
37–39
≥
40
weeks.
The
NIH
Toolbox
was
used
estimate
neurocognitive
performance,
including
crystallized
fluid
intelligence,
which
measured
for
baseline
intelligence
relevant
subscales
obtained
follow-up
(with
participant
numbers
ranging
6185
6310
depending
on
domain).
An
additional
large
population-based
618,070
middle
ninth-grade
(15–16
years)
Danish
national
register
utilized
validate
association
between
academic
achievements.
A
linear
mixed
model
examine
group
differences
school
achievements,
grey
matter
volume.
mediation
analysis
performed
whether
volumes
mediated
GA
neurocognition,
followed
a
track
changes.
Results
Significant
found
in
all
scores,
twenty-five
cortical
regional
(
P
<
0.05,
Bonferroni
corrected).
Specifically,
lower
ages
graded
achievements
smaller
fronto-parieto-temporal,
fusiform,
cingulate,
insula,
postcentral,
hippocampal,
thalamic,
pallidal
regions.
These
function
=
1
×
10
−8
,
β
0.017,
95%
CI:
0.007–0.028).
Longitudinal
showed
that
compared
full
term
adolescents,
preterm
still
had
scores
years.
Conclusions
results
emphasize
relationships
birth
volume,
educational
many
when
old.
indicates
importance
screening
close
behavioral
children
born
are
even
little
than
term.
Brain Structure and Function,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
228(5), P. 1201 - 1257
Published: May 13, 2023
The
orbitofrontal
cortex
and
amygdala
are
involved
in
emotion
motivation,
but
the
relationship
between
these
functions
performed
by
brain
structures
is
not
clear.
To
address
this,
a
unified
theory
of
motivation
described
which
motivational
states
instrumental
goal-directed
actions
to
obtain
rewards
or
avoid
punishers,
emotional
that
elicited
when
reward
punisher
received.
This
greatly
simplifies
our
understanding
for
same
set
genes
associated
systems
can
define
primary
unlearned
punishers
such
as
sweet
taste
pain.
Recent
evidence
on
connectivity
human
indicates
value
experienced
with
outputs
cortical
regions
including
those
language,
key
region
depression
changes
motivation.
has
weak
effective
back
humans,
implicated
brainstem-mediated
responses
stimuli
freezing
autonomic
activity,
rather
than
declarative
emotion.
anterior
cingulate
learning
rewards,
ventromedial
prefrontal
providing
goals
navigation
reward-related
effects
memory
consolidation
mediated
partly
via
cholinergic
system.
Cerebral Cortex,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
33(2), P. 330 - 356
Published: Feb. 4, 2022
The
human
orbitofrontal
cortex,
ventromedial
prefrontal
cortex
(vmPFC),
and
anterior
cingulate
are
involved
in
reward
processing
thereby
emotion
but
also
implicated
episodic
memory.
To
understand
these
regions
better,
the
effective
connectivity
between
360
cortical
24
subcortical
was
measured
172
humans
from
Human
Connectome
Project
complemented
with
functional
diffusion
tractography.
has
gustatory,
olfactory,
temporal
visual,
auditory,
pole
areas.
to
pregenual
posterior
hippocampal
system
provides
for
rewards
be
used
memory
navigation
goals.
have
supracallosal
which
projects
midcingulate
other
premotor
areas
action-outcome
learning
including
limb
withdrawal
or
flight
fight
aversive
nonreward
stimuli.
lateral
outputs
language
systems
inferior
frontal
gyrus.
medial
connects
nucleus
basalis
of
Meynert
septum,
damage
may
contribute
impairments
by
disrupting
cholinergic
influences
on
neocortex
hippocampus.
Hippocampus,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Sept. 2, 2024
Abstract
A
key
question
for
understanding
the
function
of
hippocampus
in
memory
is
how
information
recalled
from
to
neocortex.
This
was
investigated
a
neuronal
network
model
hippocampal
system
which
“What”
and
“Where”
firing
rate
vectors
were
applied
separate
neocortical
modules,
then
activated
entorhinal
cortex
dentate
gyrus,
CA3,
CA1,
cortex,
backprojections
showed
that
whole
could
be
trained
recall
neocortex
as
retrieval
cue
neocortex,
principle
up
towards
theoretical
capacity
determined
largely
by
number
synapses
onto
any
one
neuron
divided
sparseness
representation.
The
synaptic
weights
imported
into
an
integrate‐and‐fire
simulation
same
architecture,
time
presenting
module
approximately
100
ms.
sufficiently
fast
backprojection
still
active
neurons
during
storage
episodic
memory,
this
needed
operate
correctly
These
simulations
also
long
loop
neocortex–hippocampus–neocortex
operates
continuously
may
contribute
complete
neocortex;
but
positive
feedback
makes
dynamical
inherently
liable
pathological
increase
activity.
Important
factors
contributed
stability
included
increased
inhibition
CA3
CA1
keep
rates
low;
temporal
adaptation
synapses,
are
proposed
make
important
contribution
stabilizing
runaway
excitation
cortical
circuits
brain.
Hippocampus,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
35(3)
Published: April 28, 2025
ABSTRACT
A
theory
and
network
model
are
presented
of
how
scene
representations
built
by
forming
spatial
view
cells
in
the
ventromedial
visual
cortical
pathway
to
hippocampus
primates
including
humans.
Layer
1,
corresponding
V1–V4,
connects
2
retrosplenial
area
uses
competitive
learning
form
feature
combination
neurons
for
part
being
fixated,
a
fixation
patch.
In
3,
parahippocampal
hippocampus,
patches
stitched
together
whole
representations.
This
is
performed
with
continuous
attractor
made
from
overlapping
Gaussian
receptive
fields
as
head
rotates
scene.
addition,
gain
modulation
gaze
direction
maps
correct
representation
when
saccades
made.
Each
neuron
3
thus
cell
that
responds
location
viewed
based
on
features
The
novel
conceptual
advances
this
shows
may
be
primates,
humans,
scenes
anchor
world
(to
allocentric,
world‐based,
space);
contributes
this.
offers
revolutionary
approach
understanding
navigation
episodic
memory
NeuroImage,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
258, P. 119352 - 119352
Published: June 2, 2022
To
advance
understanding
of
brain
networks
involved
in
language,
the
effective
connectivity
between
26
cortical
regions
implicated
language
by
a
community
analysis
and
360
was
measured
171
humans
from
Human
Connectome
Project,
complemented
with
functional
diffusion
tractography,
all
using
HCP
multimodal
parcellation
atlas.
A
(semantic)
network
(Group
1)
involving
inferior
superior
temporal
sulcus
cortex
(STS)
adjacent
visual
TE1a
pole
TG,
connected
parietal
PGi
region,
has
(TE)
regions;
PFm
which
also
connectivity;
posterior
cingulate
memory-related
frontal
pole,
orbitofrontal
cortex,
medial
prefrontal
cortex;
dorsolateral
44
45
for
output
regions.
It
is
proposed
that
this
system
can
build
its
lobe
(STS
TG)
parts
(PGi
PGs)
semantic
representations
objects
incorporating
especially
their
reward
properties.
Another
3)
more
including
STGa,
auditory
A5,
TPOJ1,
STV
Peri-Sylvian
Language
area
(PSL)
areas
(A1,
A4,
Pbelt);
relatively
early
motion,
e.g.,
MT
MST,
faces/words
(FFC);
somatosensory
(frontal
opercular
FOP,
insula
PF);
other
TPOJ
gyrus
(IFJa
IFSp).
builds
specialising
related
facial
motion
information
useful
theory
mind
/
body
image
information,
outputs
directed
not
only
to
45,
but
premotor
55b
midcingulate
cortex.
Both
(Groups
1
have
access
hippocampal
episodic
memory
via
parahippocampal
TF.
third
largely
2)
(44,
47l;
55b;
Superior
Frontal
region
SFL;
TGv)
receives
two
systems,
syntax
speech
output.
Human Brain Mapping,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
44(2), P. 629 - 655
Published: Sept. 30, 2022
The
human
posterior
cingulate,
retrosplenial,
and
medial
parietal
cortex
are
involved
in
memory
navigation.
functional
anatomy
underlying
these
cognitive
functions
was
investigated
by
measuring
the
effective
connectivity
of
Posterior
Cingulate
Division
(PCD)
regions
Human
Connectome
Project-MMP1
atlas
171
HCP
participants,
complemented
with
diffusion
tractography.
First,
postero-ventral
parts
PCD
(31pd,
31pv,
7m,
d23ab,
v23ab)
have
temporal
pole,
inferior
visual
cortex,
superior
sulcus
implicated
auditory
semantic
processing,
reward-related
vmPFC
pregenual
anterior
cingulate
hippocampal
system.
This
implicates
it
episodic
memory,
providing
routes
for
"what,"
reward
schema-related
information
to
access
hippocampus.
Second,
antero-dorsal
(especially
31a
23d,
PCV,
also
RSC)
early
cortical
areas
including
those
that
represent
spatial
scenes,
"where"
component
dorsal-transitional-visual
(DVT)
ProStriate
where
retrosplenial
scene
area
is
located
from
parahippocampal
area,
a
ventromedial
route
reach
These
connectivities
provide
important
reward,
scene-related
midcingulate
provides
dorsal
supracallosal
part
premotor
regions.
Hippocampus,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
33(5), P. 533 - 572
Published: Sept. 7, 2022
Abstract
Hippocampal
and
parahippocampal
gyrus
spatial
view
neurons
in
primates
respond
to
the
location
being
looked
at.
The
representation
is
allocentric,
that
responses
are
locations
“out
there”
world,
relatively
invariant
with
respect
retinal
position,
eye
head
direction,
place
where
individual
located.
underlying
connectivity
humans
from
ventromedial
visual
cortical
regions
scene
area,
leading
theory
cells
formed
by
combinations
of
overlapping
feature
inputs
self‐organized
based
on
their
closeness
space.
Thus,
although
represent
“where”
for
episodic
memory
navigation,
they
ventral
stream
what
area.
A
second
driver
parietal
inputs,
which
it
proposed
provide
idiothetic
update
cells,
used
recall
navigation
when
details
obscured.
Inferior
temporal
object
“what”
orbitofrontal
cortex
reward
connect
human
hippocampal
system,
macaques
can
be
associated
hippocampus
cell
representations
implement
memory.
also
a
basis
series
viewed
landmarks,
providing
goals
then
implemented
involved
visuomotor
actions
presence
foveate
vision
highly
developed
lobe
processing
including
key
understanding
primate
hippocampus,
roles
this
system
navigation.
Cerebral Cortex,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
33(7), P. 3319 - 3349
Published: July 14, 2022
The
effective
connectivity
between
55
visual
cortical
regions
and
360
was
measured
in
171
HCP
participants
using
the
HCP-MMP
atlas,
complemented
with
functional
diffusion
tractography.
A
Ventrolateral
Visual
"What"
Stream
for
object
face
recognition
projects
hierarchically
to
inferior
temporal
cortex,
which
orbitofrontal
cortex
reward
value
emotion,
hippocampal
memory
system.
Ventromedial
"Where"
scene
representations
connects
parahippocampal
gyrus
hippocampus.
An
Inferior
STS
(superior
sulcus)
Semantic
receives
from
Stream,
parietal
PGi,
ventromedial-prefrontal
system
language
systems.
Dorsal
via
V2
V3A
MT+
Complex
(including
MT
MST),
connect
intraparietal
LIP,
VIP
MIP)
involved
motion
actions
space.
It
performs
coordinate
transforms
idiothetic
update
of
representations.
Superior
inputs
STV,
auditory
A5,
is
activated
by
expression,
vocalization,
important
social
behaviour,