New research has highlighted the importance of the "caudate".

Associative learning allows an individual to acquire an association between a sensory cue and an outcome resulting from a specific response. Associative learning plays a vital role in the ability to ...

The findings suggest that the tool can be used to not only assess cognitive impairment in Huntington disease (HD) but also to detect brain atrophy patterns associated with cognitive status in these ...

Neuroscientists have shown that stimulating the caudate nucleus can generate negative moods that lead to irrational decision-making. Stimulating the caudate nucleus causes animals to give far more ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A brain structure called the caudate nucleus, which plays an important role in cognition, emotions, mood, and motor function, may shrink by nearly 20 percent in persons with multiple ...

Figure 1. Research flowchart. This study screened a total of 995 patients, and ultimately determined that 397 patients met the inclusion criteria. According to whether the caudate lobe of the liver ...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a research technique that measures blood flow or activation in different areas of the brain. The caudate nucleus is located near the center of the brain ...