Striatum

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 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

Synonyms

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corpus striatumcorpus striatumstriate body

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"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)."

Related phrases

dorsal striatumventral striatumcaudate nucleuslentiform nucleus

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