neostriatum

One of the first measurements was made using an implanted carbon fiber electrode in the neostriatum of rats.

In one such study, rats were depleted of dopamine by up to 99 percent in the nucleus accumbens and neostriatum using 6-hydroxydopamine.

The cerebellum, hippocampus, neostriatum, and basal ganglia were identified as being involved in memory acquisition tasks.

However, birds use a different part of the brain, the medio-rostral neostriatum / hyperstriatum ventrale, as the seat of their intelligence.

The striatum, also known as the neostriatum or striate nucleus, is a subcortical (i.e., inside, rather than on the outside) part of the forebrain.

The most prominent early effects are in a part of the basal ganglia called the neostriatum, which is composed of the caudate nucleus and putamen.

Current thinking indicates that the limbic system shares anatomy with a component of the neostriatum already credited with the major task of controlling procedural memory.

The term neostriatum was forged by comparative anatomists comparing the subcortical structures between vertebrates, because it was thought to be a phylogenetically newer section of the corpus striatum.

His mentor at Rockefeller, Dr. Fernando Nottebohm, had found in 1976 that the region of the brain that songbirds use to sing (the dorsal neostriatum) was much larger in males than females.

They found that gene expression was most pronounced in those birds that had heard their compatriots' songs, and that the region involved was the caudal neostriatum, a part of the bird's forebrain where signals from the ears are interpreted.

The region was renamed to nidopallium in 2002 during the Avian Brain Nomenclature Consortium because the prior name, neostriatum, suggested that the region was used for more primitive functions as the neostriatum in mammalian brains is sub-cortical.