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The authors lesioned discrete parts of the prefrontal cortex in different monkeys and showed convincingly that these lesions had differential effects on the animals' ability to reverse rewarding associations in an object reversal task.
Studies showing the expression of dopamine receptors in the anterior cingulate cortex [ 26 ] and that activation of mesocortical dopaminergic neurons via apomorphine enhances activity in the prefrontal cortex [ 27 28 ] suggest that dopaminergic modulation influences the efficiency of the executive attention network.
Imaging studies show that the alerting network depends largely on frontal and parietal areas of the right hemisphere [ 3 4 ] . The orienting network has important involvement of superior and inferior parts of the parietal lobe in conjunction with frontal and subcortical structures related to eye movements [ 5 ] . The executive control network involves frontal areas including the anterior cingulate and lateral prefrontal cortex [ 6 ] .
A recent finding showed that COMT genotype was related to performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test of executive cognition [ 55 ] . In addition, those subjects with the Methionine alleles needed less prefrontal cortical activity, as judged by fMRI, to show the same level of performance on the N-back task.
The accumulated data provide particular support for DISC1 , DTNBP1 , NRG1 , and RGS4 . Each of these genes has received support from multiple lines of evidence with imperfect consistency: 1) The case for each of these as a candidate gene for schizophrenia is supported by linkage studies; 2) The preponderance of association study findings provides further support; 3) mRNA from each gene is expressed in the prefrontal cortex as well as in other areas of the brain; and 4) Additional neurobiological data link the functions of these genes to biological processes thought to be related to schizophrenia.
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