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OL is a tetracyclic triterpenoid isolated from Phellodendri cortex.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Early in learning, the sorting task primarily activated the prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for executive functions such as planning, reasoning, and conscious decision-making.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
At the same time, your brain’s amygdala, or fear and emotion center, calms down and its prefrontal cortex, which governs rational thought, amps up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Many animals can also focus their attention despite lacking a highly developed prefrontal cortex.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
The auditory cortex has areas that process pitch, while other areas of the brain combine biology and culture to stimulate the limbic system to respond emotionally to music.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
"Both the frontal and posterior temporal cortexes disrupt semantic integration, which we see happen in individuals with various aphasias," Murphy said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023
The hypothesis that a drug could protect other patients’ entorhinal cortexes requires more research.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
But Rego, who has practiced psychiatry for three decades, takes the unique approach of examining with specificity the impact of 21st century life on our magnificent, misunderstood prefrontal cortexes.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2021
A select number of Americans, it should be noted, don’t even own a flat-screen, tablet or other instrument of destruction delivering all this rottery into our cerebral cortexes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
“In fact, it is one of the largest lateral prefrontal cortexes I’ve ever seen. Yet the orbitofrontal cortex is remarkably small. What do these two facts indicate?”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
Research has shown that the premotor and posterior parietal cortices, along with the temporoparietal junction, are active in the brain when we are locating or thinking about ourselves.
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
The analyses unveiled a nuanced architecture of mixed feedback and feedforward processing, spanning frontal and temporal cortices.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023
In one 2022 study, Fani, Harnett and their colleagues reported that among 81 Black women who had experienced trauma, those who reported experiencing more racial discrimination showed proportionally thinner gray matter in the cingulate cortices.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
If this works, she adds, one should expect to see reduced connected activity between the auditory and motor cortices.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2021
If such a thing as telepathy existed, one of its glories would be the opportunity for each of us to read the books in the cerebral cortices of our loved ones.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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