basal ganglion
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪsəl ˈɡæŋɡliən/
- Specialized
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ganglio basal
- The basal ganglia are widely recognized as a network of nuclei supporting the planning and execution of movement.
And those brain circuits are the basal ganglia.
- And those brain circuits are the basal ganglia.
- And what he also found is that it was hereditary, that people in their family also had this same enlarged, more dense basal ganglia.
- Yeah, Yeah, He did a lot of work with like the basal ganglia stuff, right.
- Let's say for the the sake of the story, yes, OK, your basal ganglia is going to light up because it's going to hurt, right?
- And even those who were born with stuttering, it's it's often the basal ganglia that's disrupted than some other brain circuit.
- You're still just talking about, you know, some broad class of cells, all pyramidal neurons, all basal ganglia.
- So I wonder what came first, the hypersensitive active basal ganglia part of the brain or the experience with these beings?
- They can't inhibit it and these words, and we know that Tourette's is a problem with a basal ganglia.
Examples
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The central pathology of PD is the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic cells of the substantia nigra of the basal ganglia.
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Spontaneous and cognitive creativity involve the basal ganglia of the brain.
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And here are the basal ganglia, these deep nuclei of the brain.
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The pattern of results provides additional evidence of basal ganglia involvement in the programming and coordination of speech movement sequences.
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Our understanding of basal ganglia function has evolved, in part, through research from the last two decades of individuals with neurological diseases such as PD.
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Other conditions causing progressive nervous system degeneration, such as Lewy body dementia, can also cause parkinsonism, as they can damage the basal ganglia.
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It is widely accepted that lesions to the basal ganglia resulting from PD disrupt speech production.
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Endogenous opioids are concentrated in structures of the basal ganglia and are known to interact with central dopaminergic neurons.
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After the series of tests, the researchers had the students' brains scanned using magnetic resonance imaging technology, focusing on the basal ganglia structure and function of the brain.
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The basal ganglia play a crucial role in regulating voluntary movements through a network of interconnected structures in the brain.
Surface Forms
Morphology
basal + ganglion
The term is compositionally regular: 'basal' (relating to a base or foundational part) modifies 'ganglion' (a cluster of nerve cells), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a ganglion located at the base/deep part of the brain involved in movement. It is a technical biomedical term but its meaning is directly derivable from the constituents rather than being idiomatic.
Etymology
Basal ganglion comes from its parts: basal means 'base' and ganglion means 'a knot or group of nerve cells'. The name makes a simple picture of a group deep inside the brain that helps 'control movement', so it now refers to those deep brain groups that guide voluntary actions.