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ReviewBrain sciences2019

A Focus on the Functions of Area 25.

Laith Alexander, Hannah F Clarke, Angela C Roberts

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Review in Brain sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Spatial Margin of Safety Calculations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  19. Subgenual and Hippocampal Pathways in Amygdala Are Set to Balance Affect and Context Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laith AlexanderDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK. la326@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1297-6548
Hannah F ClarkeDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK. hfc23@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-1289-8917
Angela C RobertsDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK. acr4@cam.ac.uk.
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G1000183Medical Research Council G1100307Medical Research Council MR/M023990/1Medical Research Council RG62920Wellcome Trust 108089/Z/ 15/
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Subcallosal area 25 is one of the least understood regions of the anterior cingulate cortex, but activity in this area is emerging as a crucial correlate of mood and affective disorder symptomatology. The cortical and subcortical connectivity of area 25 suggests it may act as an interface between the bioregulatory and emotional states that are aberrant in disorders such as depression. However, evidence for such a role is limited because of uncertainty over the functional homologue of area 25 in rodents, which hinders cross-species translation. This emphasizes the need for causal manipulations in monkeys in which area 25, and the prefrontal and cingulate regions in which it is embedded, resemble those of humans more than rodents. In this review, we consider physiological and behavioral evidence from non-pathological and pathological studies in humans and from manipulations of area 25 in monkeys and its putative homologue, the infralimbic cortex (IL), in rodents. We highlight the similarities between area 25 function in monkeys and IL function in rodents with respect to the regulation of reward-driven responses, but also the apparent inconsistencies in the regulation of threat responses, not only between the rodent and monkey literatures, but also within the rodent literature. Overall, we provide evidence for a causal role of area 25 in both the enhanced negative affect and decreased positive affect that is characteristic of affective disorders, and the cardiovascular and endocrine perturbations that accompany these mood changes. We end with a brief consideration of how future studies should be tailored to best translate these findings into the clinic.

Indexed as

anhedoniaanticipatory arousalarea 25autonomicemotioninfralimbicnegative affect

Identifiers

PMID31163643
PMCPMC6627335
OpenAlexW2947549858

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