"Prefrontal Cortex" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The rostral part of the frontal lobe, bounded by the inferior precentral fissure in humans, which receives projection fibers from the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus. The prefrontal cortex receives afferent fibers from numerous structures of the diencephalon, mesencephalon, and limbic system as well as cortical afferents of visual, auditory, and somatic origin.
| Descriptor ID |
D017397
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.270.700
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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