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What does subcortical mean?

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  1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the subcortex, the portion of the brain located below the cerebral cortex
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The locus coeruleus is one of a number of subcortical loci involved in modulating cortical activity and awareness.
Baseline sleep states that preceded arousal or subcortical activation were established during 30-sccond time periods.
All the neural equipment you need to do ocular following and emotional responses is subcortical.
Fear responses do not require brain structures needed for consciousness and analytic thought but can be processed without conscious awareness by subcortical structures.
All of these results support a peripheral polyneuropathy with a possible cortical or subcortical involvement.
At one month of age there is intensive activity in the cortical and subcortical regions that control sensory-motor functions.

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