cortex
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Research suggests that trauma can leave the amygdala—the brain’s threat-detection center—chronically overactivated, while dampening the prefrontal cortex, which governs reasoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
The team also used pattern visual evoked potentials – a painless test that measured how well signals travelled from the retina to the visual cortex.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Instead, it creates filament networks just beneath the inner membrane, forming a layer of protein polymers that resembles a cell cortex.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
This region connects to the prefrontal cortex, forming a thalamocortical circuit that supports decision-making and executive control.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
If Phineas survived with a large piece of his cortex destroyed, then what does the cortex do?
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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