ACC International

The heart of the matter: Why the ACC has an international outreach.

The ACC’s goals with respect to international efforts are as follows: increase international participation in educational activities; increase international knowledge exchange; increase international participation in practice standards and quality initiatives; and increase communication on international activities. At first glance, it might seem odd for an American medical society to have an in...

acc-Motif Detection Tool

Background: Network motif algorithms have been a topic of research mainly after the 2002-seminal paper from Milo et al, that provided motifs as a way to uncover the basic building blocks of most networks. In Bioinformatics, motifs have been mainly applied in the field of gene regulation networks field. Results: This paper proposes new algorithms to exactly count isomorphic pattern motifs of siz...

Reflections from ACC 2015

Pain in the ACC?

Lieberman and Eisenberger (1) claim that the “dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is selective for pain.” This surprising conclusion contradicts a large body of evidence showing robust dACC responses to nonpainful conditions. Electrophysiological and optogenetic studies have identified neuronal populations activated during foraging behavior, attention, emotion, reward expectancy, skeletomot...

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