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Rolls, Edmund T., Cheng, Wei and Feng, Jianfeng (2020) The orbitofrontal cortex : reward, emotion and depression. Brain Communications, 2 (2). fcaa196. doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcaa196
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa196
Abstract
The orbitofrontal cortex in primates including humans is the key brain area in emotion, and in the representation of reward value and in non-reward, that is not obtaining an expected reward. Cortical processing before the orbitofrontal cortex is about the identity of stimuli, i.e. ‘what’ is present, and not about reward value. There is evidence that this holds for taste, visual, somatosensory and olfactory stimuli. The human medial orbitofrontal cortex represents many different types of reward, and the lateral orbitofrontal cortex represents non-reward and punishment. Not obtaining an expected reward can lead to sadness, and feeling depressed. The concept is advanced that an important brain region in depression is the orbitofrontal cortex, with depression related to over-responsiveness and over-connectedness of the non-reward-related lateral orbitofrontal cortex, and to under-responsiveness and under-connectivity of the reward-related medial orbitofrontal cortex. Evidence from large-scale voxel-level studies and supported by an activation study is described that provides support for this hypothesis. Increased functional connectivity of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex with brain areas that include the precuneus, posterior cingulate cortex and angular gyrus is found in patients with depression and is reduced towards the levels in controls when treated with medication. Decreased functional connectivity of the medial orbitofrontal cortex with medial temporal lobe areas involved in memory is found in patients with depression. Some treatments for depression may act by reducing activity or connectivity of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex. New treatments that increase the activity or connectivity of the medial orbitofrontal cortex may be useful for depression. These concepts, and that of increased activity in non-reward attractor networks, have potential for advancing our understanding and treatment of depression. The focus is on the orbitofrontal cortex in primates including humans, because of differences of operation of the orbitofrontal cortex, and indeed of reward systems, in rodents. Finally, the hypothesis is developed that the orbitofrontal cortex has a special role in emotion and decision-making in part because as a cortical area it can implement attractor networks useful in maintaining reward and emotional states online, and in decision-making.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QP Physiology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Computer Science | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Depression, Mental, Prefrontal cortex, Computational neuroscience , Depression, Mental -- Treatment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Brain Communications | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2632-1297 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 16 November 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | fcaa196 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/braincomms/fcaa196 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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