And other neuroscience news you may have missed in April 2023.

Social neuroscience refers to the study of neural functions underlying our understanding of interpersonal behavior, social rules, socially appropriate choices, and our sense of self and others.

Key areas in your brain help you to weigh values, understand rules, make plans, and form predictions about the outcomes of your choices.

Our executive function is our higher-level processing which mainly occurs in the prefrontal cortex — helping us with impulse control, working memory, and mental flexibility.

Two physicians — Pierre Paul Broca and Carl Wernicke — provided pivotal insights from patients with brain damage, demonstrating how particular regions influence language production and comprehension.

Specialized and organized regions of our brains can work together to build hierarchical, connected representations of concepts — helping us construct meaning.

To make sense of our day-to-day experiences, we reference our memories from prior experiences to build depictions and register stimuli in our environments.

Huntington’s disease is a heritable neurodegenerative disease that can impact those under 20 in its juvenile form and develop in adults as early as their 30s and 40s.

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a fatal motor neuron disease.

Alzheimer’s disease slowly kills brain cells, damaging memory and cognition.