Striatum
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus considered as a single structure.
"Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active)."
- 2 a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus wordnet
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More examples"Those nonaddicts who picked a winning card had increased blood flow to the striatum, but the gambling addicts who picked the right card had much less of it (their reward system was less active)."