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Behavioral control by the orbital prefrontal cortex: reversal of fortune

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A study shows that selective lesions of the orbital prefrontal cortex in macaques spare behavioral flexibility and emotional processing but impair a test of outcome expectation, suggesting that some psychiatric disorders ascribed to a disrupted orbital prefrontal cortex may instead be caused by more widespread dysfunction.

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Figure 1: Schematic of OFC lesion conditions shown on a lateral view of the brain, slightly rotated to show part of the far hemisphere, and tilted up to show the OFC on the ventral surface.

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