forebrain

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Especially expanded in humans are the frontal lobes or the forebrain, they are involved in functions such ...

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  1. noun The most anterior of the three primary regions of the embryonic brain from which the telencephalon and diencephalon develop.
  2. noun The segment of the adult brain that develops from the embryonic forebrain and includes the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus.

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  • It's all about cortical processing and forebrain specialization. —  Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain
  • Even among vertebrates, only mammals and birds have a characteristic shift from fast waves to slow ones in the forebrain, the typical signature of deep sleep. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 06 - June 2002
  • The only part the researchers couldn't spot was the forebrain, perhaps too thin to become mineralized.
  • Especially expanded in humans are the frontal lobes or the forebrain, they are involved in functions such ... —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Scale bar: 250 µm. hb, hindbrain; dd; dorsal diencephalon; t, telencephalon; r3, rhombomere 3; r5, rhombomere 5; fmb, forebrain-midbrain boundary; os, optic stalk; mhb, midbrain-hindbrain boundary; oc, otic capsule; sn, spinal chord neurons. rpl11 deficiency leads to misregulated expression of transcription factors —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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