Putamen used in a sentence

Putamen in a sentence as a noun

But I know how to determine what portions of the midbrain connected to the caudate-putamen, connected to the prefrontal cortex and connected to the part of the brain that does imaging...is all related to each other.

On the neural level, we observed that, compared with a memory control group, compassion training elicited activity in a neural network including the medial orbitofrontal cortex, putamen, pallidum, and ventral tegmental area--brain regions previously associated with positive affect and affiliation.