Definition of "neuroanatomic" []

• Of or pertaining to the anatomy of the nervous system (adjective)

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• "As I mentioned in my testimony in 1996 before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, very preterm neonates have the neuroanatomic substrate and functional physiologic and chemical processes in the brain responsible for mediating pain or noxious stimuli (known as nociception)."
• "Consistent with the prevalence of these abnormal movements in psychotic patients are other data (neuroimaging, neurodevelopmental, neuroanatomic, clinicopathologic) indicating that cerebellar dysfunction may play a role in the pathogenesis of some schizophrenias (970)."
• "Implications: Increased activation in the amygdala and decreased activation in the orbitofrontal cortex may represent disruption of a specific neuroanatomic circuit involved in mania."