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The outer region of an organ or structure. The parts of the brain (as the corpus striatum and internal capsule) immediately adjoining the cerebral cortex.

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  • Tennessee, who contends that young fetuses can feel pain in a more primitive part of the brain called the subcortex, which receives pain signals before the cortex has...
  • The "basic machinery" to do this is located primarily in the subcortex.
  • They also determined the killers had higher than normal activity in a deeper, more primitive part of the brain, the subcortex, where the brain may stimulate aggressive...
  • Goldberg also brings out how, because of the unique richness of the frontal lobes 'connections to different parts of the brain, other conditions which have their primary...
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