Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Learning from mistakes starts with the ERN, an error signal the anterior cingulate fires in under 100ms. See how acetylcholine...

OCD is driven by a glutamate excitatory imbalance, not a willpower problem. See how cortico-striatal loops misfire, and how the...

What the anterior cingulate cortex does: error detection, salience, interoception, and cognitive control. A clear guide to ACC function.

Anterior cingulate cortex anxiety drives chronic self-doubt in high achievers. See how an overactive error-detection system fuels it.

Why won't your brain stop signaling something is wrong? Dr. Sydney Ceruto explains the rostral ACC error-monitor circuit driving OCD...

Mirror neurons hard-wire childhood family roles into adult behavior. Dr. Sydney Ceruto explains the neural circuit, and how it rewires.

Rejection hurts because your brain registers social loss on the same pain circuits as physical injury: the dACC-insula social pain...

Physical pain after a breakup is your brain running opioid withdrawal: social loss firing the same circuits that register broken...

Pre-performance visualization primes the prefrontal cortex for high-stakes moments. A neuroscientist explains why rehearsing the process beats picturing the outcome.

Vividly imagining a goal fires a partial reward signal that collapses motivation. A neuroscientist explains why visualization backfires and what...