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Examples of ventromedial in a Sentence
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During these 25-minute sessions, half of the veterans simultaneously received painless, 2 milliamp tDCS stimulations directed at their ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Mar. 2024
In the imaging, researchers saw activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, meaning the brain was processing being watched as a type of reward.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
The second part—called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which supports decision making—acted as a likeability test, showing more favoritism as the human-likeness of the robots increased, but dipped for the most life-like robots.
—Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
Estrogen significantly raises oxytocin binding in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, and women produce more of it than men.
—Maria Williams, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex may produce a fundamental model of the self and knit together versions of us from past and present—even projecting into the future.
—Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex also lit up.
—Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
Previous research in this area has focused on the emotionally cold side of psychopathy, which may stem from problems in other parts of the brain like the amygdala, involved in emotions, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), involved in fear and risk.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2010
Using a device created for brain surgery, the technique required placing a precisely targeted lesion in the middle of an animal’s hypothalamus near its underside (the ventromedial region).
—Gary Taubes, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021
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First Known Use
1908, in the meaning defined above
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“Ventromedial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ventromedial. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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