The deterioration of prefrontal cortex function was the physiological factor that influenced older people’s source memory, and the difficulty of attentive allocation and the difficulty of memory procession were the psychological factors that influenced older people’s source memory.

Aim To investigate the effect of thiopental sodium on the release of glutamate and GABA from synaptosomes of rats prefrontal cortex.

The brain circuitry underlying emotion includes the prefrontal cortex, the amygdala, hippocampus, anterior cingulate, ventromedial striatum and et al.

Gene expression profiles in the prefrontal cortex of SHR using microarray analysis;

Effects of naloxone on single-unit activity in the prefrontal cortex of anaesthetized rats;

Effects of oxytocin on changes of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor 1 expression in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of mice induced by methamphetamine;

Thisarticle,mainly according to the research result of affective neurosciences in the last years, is separately introduced and analyzed among prefrontal cortex (PFC), ventromedial frontal cortex (VMFC),orbital frontal cortex (OFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), basal ganglia, amygdale, hippocampus about their different function in emotional intelligence.

Researches from animal model of fear conditioning showed that: enhancing effects of emotional arousal, secondary-order conditioning and reconsolidation of fear memory, deficient function of medial prefrontal cortex etc all are reasons block the extinction of fear memory.