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forebrain: see brain brain, the supervisory center of the nervous system in all vertebrates. It also serves as the site of emotions, memory, self-awareness, and thought. Anatomy and Function

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forebrain [′fȯr‚brān]
(embryology)
The most anterior expansion of the neural tube of a vertebrate embryo.
(vertebrate zoology)
The part of the adult brain derived from the embryonic forebrain; includes the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus.


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Little evidence exists for new cell growth in the forebrains of mammlas, he adds.
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In recent experiments Mishkin, Thomas Aigner of NIMH and Donald Price of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore used a chemical to selectively destroy teh cells of monkeys' basal forebrains.
 
 
 
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