Forebrains

Word FOREBRAINS
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What do we mean by forebrains?

The anterior part of the brain, including the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus.

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The word "forebrains" in example sentences

There is also evidence that the oxytocin receptors in rats' forebrains tend to atrophy when maternal nurturing is "insufficient". ❋ Unknown (2011)

They injected virus-bearing fluid into small areas of their forebrains and used fiber-optic cables to illuminate them with blue and yellow light. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

We're at the end of our rope with this one, having already dealt with it in 2007, and need to trawl your collective forebrains. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours, and estimated IQs to match--far surpassing our own. ❋ Kosmo (2008)

And I've seen people -- honest, honorable, who I thought were wildly wrong about something voting for Firecracker Frog Boy, maybe ... and maybe you could say they were lying to themselves, but you couldn't really say they were lying in any way their forebrains knew about. ❋ Steven Barnes (2008)

It's our pesky forebrains that must label every sensation and thought that comes through. ❋ Steve Caldwell (2007)

If some accident of evolution had led reptiles to develop advanced forebrains capable of language and higher-level consciousness, while maintaining their nonexistent child-rearing habits, they might have ended up writing powerful verse about some other deep-seated biochemical urge—temperature regulation, say—but there would be no love sonnets in the reptile canon. ❋ Steven Johnson (2004)

However, some social theorists ask, with developed forebrains and space-age technologies, do we really need such impulses? ❋ Ph.D. Scott Wetzler (1992)

Although baby humans and baby chimpanzees both start out with undeveloped forebrains, a new study reports that the human brain increases in volume much more rapidly early on. ❋ By SINDYA N. BHANOO (2011)

The researchers followed the brain patterns of test subjects with MRI imaging, and identified dopamine streaming into the striatum region of their forebrains "at peak emotional arousal during music listening." ❋ Matthew Lasar (2011)

He was part of a group of researchers who explored the relationship between the forebrains of mammals to those in other vertebrates, Margoliash said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Blbp expression was also significantly reduced in the forebrains of mice lacking the Notch1 (190198) and Notch3 ❋ Unknown (2010)

AKAP5, RIIα and RIIβ have all been shown to be associated with the PSD, and PSD preparations from the forebrains of AKAP5 KO mice contain 60% less RIIα and 90% less RIIβ compared to WT mice ❋ Michael Weisenhaus Et Al. (2010)

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