Recent studies have found connections between schizophrenia and abnormalities in the brain's salience network, a crucial system with key centers in the anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex.

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The salience network, a neural system responsible for attention allocation and switching between different brain networks, appears to be functionally twice as large in people with depression as in ...

Results from a new clinical trial suggest that a group of brain regions known as the "salience network" is activated after a drug is taken intravenously, but not when that same drug is taken orally.

Researchers have discovered that a brain network involved in reward processing and attention to stimuli is markedly bigger in people with depression, remains stable over time, is unaffected by mood ...

Dementia doesn't just erode memory -- it also changes behavior and mental health. A study shows the brain's salience network and tau protein may be involved. When most people think of dementia, ...