How to Use striatum in a Sentence

striatum

noun

• Researchers have looked at the striatum, a structure buried inside the middle of the brain, to better understand our habits.
  — Sahar Arshad, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2021
• So the scientists focused their attention on the ventral striatum of the dogs.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2012
• All are due to neuronal death in the movement-controlling striatum as well as the cerebral cortex.
  — Sharon Begley, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2019
• As the name implies, the circuit connects structures deep in the brain—the basal ganglia, which includes the striatum, and the thalamus—with areas in the cortex closer to the brain’s surface.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• The researchers found that compared to the germ-free mice, the normal mice had reduced expression of two brain molecules, synaptophysin, and PSD-95, in a region of the brain called the striatum.
  — Malcolm MacIver, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2011
• In Sarah's case, the circuit ran from her amygdala, an area known to control fear and other strong emotions, to her ventral striatum, which is involved in decision-making.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
• Other small early studies found increased levels of dopamine in the striatum, a critical piece of the brain’s reward circuitry.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• The disk, a neurostimulator, then transmits a signal along a separate wire to the striatum to tamp down feelings of sadness and depression.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2021
• This mental ability transpires within the brain machinery known as the striatum.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 9 Oct. 2017
• When researchers showed pictures of cocaine to drug addicts or photographs of donuts to healthy people, the same brain regions—ranging from the ventral striatum and amygdala to the cerebellum—lit up in both groups.
  — Marta Zaraska, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2023
• Another region, the ventral striatum, is part of the brain’s reward and motivation system.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Time, 16 Aug. 2017
• The process involves the striatum, a dopaminergic reward center that drugs like cocaine and amphetamines exploit.
  — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Stimulation to the ventral striatum has also produced the same sort of laughter and mood elevation that Bijanki saw, Sheth says.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2019
• That timeline could be of use not just to episodic memory in the hippocampus, but to working memory in the prefrontal cortex and conditioning responses in the striatum.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 17 Feb. 2019
• This mental effort pays off: As the hippocampus activates, so too does the ventral striatum, another of the brain’s dopaminergic reward centers.
  — Popular Science, 8 Apr. 2020
• And when people refused to profit from harming others, the prefrontal cortex increased its communication with the striatum.
  — Molly Crockett, Scientific American Blog Network, 15 May 2017
• Another region of my brain to light up with activity was the striatum - an area associated with drug addiction and craving.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• The second relevant brain difference concerned the ventral striatum.
  — Jonah Lehrer, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2011
• By contrast none of the dopaminergic neurons projecting to the nearby dorsal striatum, involved in movement regulation do this.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2010
• In people with anorexia, both during and after hospitalization, MRI scans showed the region of the brain associated with selecting foods was the dorsal striatum, which is key to forming habits.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2020
• Duchenne smiles indicate intensity rather than genuineness, and stuttering is linked to astrocytes in the striatum.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
• The circuit diagram focuses on the links among the central thalamus, the cortex, and regions (such as the globus pallidus and the striatum) that closely regulate the level of stimulation between cortex and thalamus.
  — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
• The devices deliver stimulation at different frequencies, creating a mismatch that blocks the cortex and the striatum from syncing up.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Apr. 2019
• The ventral striatum is activated in the brains of couples who are asked to compliment each other, suggesting that the anticipation is itself rewarding.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• In one study, for instance, MRIs show an area of the brain (ventral striatum), that tracks reward satisfaction, is significantly more activated in adolescents than either in children or adults.
  — Gerald Posner, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• And in the striatum, which is important in motor control, the mitochondrial expression actually went up.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 9 Aug. 2023
• Her work took her deep into the striatum, a part of the brain implicated in involuntary movements and compulsive behaviors, but which is also central to the effects of addiction and social disconnection.
  — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2019
• And inhibiting the direct pathway in the dorsomedial striatum – an area involved in decision-making – also altered the mice’s behavior.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2022
• Ultimately, the team found that inhibiting the indirect pathway in the sensory motor striatum – an area that controls simple motor-sensory functions – caused the mice to move much more impulsively.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2022
• The brain processes sound in the auditory striatum, where signals from the auditory cortex and auditory thalamus converge with dopamine.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024