claustrum
Americannoun
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claustra
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Etymology
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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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
The claustrum helps to regulate concentration, but its exact role remains unknown.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
They saw that when electrode locations were within networks that flowed through the claustrum—presumably altering claustrum activity—patients saw better results from deep brain stimulation.
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
The Latin claustrum, as its derivation implies, primarily denoted no more than the enclosing wall of a religious house, and then came to be used for the whole building enclosed within the wall.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" 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 Walter Pater
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