Reticular formation

noun

Word Frequency: 0.9

Definitions

1.nounPart of the brain that is involved in actions such as awaking/sleeping cycle, and filtering incoming stimuli to discriminate irrelevant background stimuli

Synonyms

red nucleus nrem locus coeruleus brain retrotrapezoid nucleus default mode network hindbrain ventral tegmentum raphe pallidus nucleus ambiguus cerebellum appestat

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