claustrum
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Origin of claustrum
1840–50; < New Latin; Latin: bolt, barrier, equivalent to claud ( ere ) to close, shut + -trum instrumental suffix; cf. cloister
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Hidden deep in the brain, the claustrum is a thin sheet-like structure that receives and processes information from different parts of it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
They discovered that two types of neurons in the claustrum, which send output signals to different parts of the brain, respond in opposing ways to acetylcholine and GABA.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
It took the combination of the lesions and the connectome to identify the claustrum as a structure of importance for parkinsonism.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2018
The claustrum coincidentally appears as a rest stop, so to speak, on the network maps of almost all the lesion cases.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2018
External to the putamen is a long narrow strip of grey matter called the claustrum, which is sometimes regarded as a third nucleus of the corpus striatum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
Omnia tum vero vitai claustra lababant;+ and soon the cold was mounting with sure pace from the dead feet to the head.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Pater, Walter
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