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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The key nodes of the network identified by the researchers were putamen, amygdala and claustrum located deep within the brain, and the connections between them.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
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
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
In the case of the claustrum and Parkinson’s disease, only time will tell.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2018
A monastery without a library was considered as a fort or a camp deprived of the necessary articles for its defence: "claustrum sine armario, quasi castrum sine armentario."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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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