caudate
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When the dogs saw happy faces, activity increased in the temporal cortex and caudate nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
This is infused deep into the brain using real-time MRI scanning to guide a microcatheter to two brain regions - the caudate nucleus and the putamen.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
Researchers found that the brain region associated with positive rewards, the caudate nucleus, was most activated by the scent of their familiar human; the study was published in the journal Behavioural Processes in 2014.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
These included the caudate nucleus, part of the reward system, and an ancient brain area called the ventral tegmental area, or VTA.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2019
Adj. pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended &c. v.; loose, flowing. having a peduncle &c. n.; pedunculate†, tailed, caudate.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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