subcortical

IPA: sʌbkˈɔrtʌkʌɫ

(medicine) Of or pertaining to the subcortex, the portion of the brain located below the cerebral cortex
Beneath the bark of trees.

Examples of "subcortical" in Sentences

Subcortical ischemic depression.
The subcortical visual system of primates.
Frontal subcortical circuits and human behavior.
The higher brain works by regulating subcortical processes.
It consists in a huge neuronal telencephalic subcortical mass.
There is a difference between cortical and subcortical dementia.
A few subcortical structures show alterations reflecting this trend.
There are many cortical and subcortical structures implicated in micturition.
Neuroimaging and frontal subcortical circuitry in obsessive compulsive disorder.
Most of them are located below the cerebral cortex and are known as subcortical.
The caudate nucleus is part of the telencephalon (forebrain), but is inside (underneath) of the cerebral cortex, so it is called a subcortical nucleus.
However, laboratory studies have not been able to unequivocally determine how the very basic information-processing "subcortical" regions of the brain function in processing risk and reward.
Research into "the brain chemistry of love" indicates that when a person sees a potential mate, it takes as little as a fifth of a second for the brain to launch a complex "love-related" chain reaction involving multiple areas of the cortical and more primitive subcortical portions of the brain.