How to Use forebrain in a Sentence

forebrain

noun

• Still, the new findings suggest an enlarged forebrain could be part of what gave them their edge.
  — Nala Rogers | Inside Science, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2021
• Those nerves pass through a bony plate to reach the olfactory bulb, a small neural structure in the forebrain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2022
• Smell is the only sense that doesn’t pass through the thalamus before reaching the forebrain.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• Once through the plate, N. fowleri gets into the olfactory bulb—the structure in the forebrain involved in smell.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 July 2019
• But all that is the product of our forebrains — where cool, dispassionate reason lives.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2017
• As a result, these fish had more connections between neurons in the forebrain.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• In the marine bristleworm, clocks exist in its forebrain and peripheral tissues of its trunk.
  — Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• In order to test how exactly the cells influence sleep need, the team focused in on astrocytes in an area of the brain called the basal forebrain, which is known for having a large impact on sleep.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
• Green staining shows the neurons in the olfactory pits, forebrain, and elsewhere, while red shows retinal ganglion cells in the eyes and some midbrain neurons.
  — Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2010
• The neurons in a round structure at the base of my forebrain are firing like crazy, a cacophony of neural activity.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2012
• Besides the dorsal cortex, researchers were able to grow, among other regions, parts of the ventral forebrain, which makes neurons that connect to the cortex, and the choroid plexus, which generates spinal fluid.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2014
• During development, the eyes are part of the embryonic forebrain.
  — Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2020
• In the study, published Thursday in Science, Paşca’s team coaxed human induced pluripotent stem cells into 3-D cultures mimicking the earliest stage of two parts of the forebrain.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• Located in the forebrain, this bulb is directly connected to the olfactory receptor neurons that line the inside the nose.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• The pictures show folds of overlapping skin and a sloping forehead, indications not only that the brain is smaller, but also that the forebrain has not developed normally, Dr. Levine said.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2016
• As suggested by earlier studies, Tessmar-Raible found light-sensitive neurons in the worms’ forebrains.
  — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
• In Mignot’s view, REM has all the hallmarks of being an ancient phenomenon, one that evolved amid vertebrate evolution before the forebrain, where most complex thinking happens, had a chance to expand.
  — Henry Nicholls, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
• Instead, their biological key to success lies in a section of their forebrain called the hyperstriatum, which allows them to perform similar tasks.
  — National Geographic, 16 May 2017
• Paşca and his colleagues have now used organoid models of parts of the human forebrain—the seat of higher cognitive abilities such as complex thought, perception and voluntary movement—to peer into how gene activity drives brain development.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• There's nothing inherently 'academic' about forebrain, in other words.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2012
• Humans process sensory information and critical decision making in the forebrain.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024