One caudate nucleus is located deep inside each of the brain’s two hemispheres, near the thalamus. The nuclei feature a wide head that tapers into a body and a thin tail. They are curved and ...

A new neuroimaging study published in Molecular Psychiatry provides evidence that anorexia nervosa is associated with altered activity in the brain’s opioid system. Women with anorexia had higher ...

This prevents the thalamus from becoming hyperactive. But in OCD, the caudate nucleus is thought to be damaged, so it cannot suppress signals from the OFC, allowing the thalamus to become over ...

Increased metabolism has been reported in the orbitofrontal 3, 4, 5 and anterior cingulate 5, 6, 7 cortices but also in the caudate nucleus 5, 8 and thalamus. 6, 9, 10 Structural abnormalities ...

Basal Ganglia (Caudate) Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Axial CT scans. Note the large intracerebral hemorrhage originating in the area of the caudate nucleus on the right. Also, note that the hemorrhage is ...

All 3,242 people had an MRI scan to measure their overall brain volume, and the size of seven regions of the brain that were thought to be linked to ADHD -- the pallidum, thalamus, caudate nucleus ...

Within these studies, MRI scans measured each participant’s overall brain volume plus the volume of seven brain regions thought to be linked to ADHD: the pallidum, thalamus, caudate nucleus ...

The largest imaging study to tackle ADHD has found that the condition is associated with differences in brain structure. Given these results, researchers are suggesting that ADHD be treated like a ...

The researchers found that the social laughter condition led to a significant increase in endorphin release in the thalamus, caudate nucleus, and anterior insula regions of the brain.