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frontal cortex

n. the cortex of the frontal lobe [syn: frontal area]

Usage examples of "frontal cortex".

Furthermore, although the frontal cortex was quite dense, its apparent normality was hardly in keeping with the contrasting readouts for other portions of the cerebellum.

And pyramidal neurons in the frontal cortex and hippocampus accumulated calpain, which meant they were vulnerable to calcium influxes, which damaged them.

In the brains of normal individuals the pre-frontal cortex “.

A mysterious manipulation of Bobby's orbito-frontal cortex might even have been a bid to reduce his free will.

The level of beasts is the cerebellum, the level of hungry ghosts the limbic archipelago, the human realm the speech lobes, the realm of the asuras is the frontal cortex, and the realm of the gods is the bridge between the two halves of the brain, which when activated gives us glimpses of a higher reality.

For this holon, in the Upper-Right quadrant, there is a change in brain physiology, a change that can be described in completely objective terms (it-language): there was a release of norepinephrine between the neural synapses in the frontal cortex, accompanied by high-amplitude beta waves .