putamen

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Meaning

The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

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Brain Human brain frontal (coronal) section Horizontal slice of MRI-image showing the putamen. Source: Internet

It was found that "increasing movement extent was associated with parallel increases of rCBF in bilateral basal ganglia (BG; putamen and globus pallidus) and ipsilateral cerebellum." Source: Internet

In more recent research, subcortical regions (those lying below the cerebral cortex such as the putamen and the caudate nucleus ) as well as the pre-motor areas ( BA 6 ) have received increased attention. Source: Internet

Muscimol was injected into various parts of the basal ganglia, and it was found that "the learning of new sequences became deficient after injections in the anterior caudate and putamen, but not the middle-posterior putamen." Source: Internet

Now it is known that not only the basal ganglia and caudate affect category learning. citation Role in "hate circuit" Recent, tentative studies have suggested that the putamen may play a role in the so-called " hate circuit" of the brain. Source: Internet

Anatomy Globus pallidus (lower left) and putamen (upper right). Source: Internet

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