Antonyms for cortex
ˈkɔr tɛks; -təˌsizcor·tex

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1. cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium, cortexnoun

   the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum

   Antonyms:
   medulla

   Synonyms:
   pallium, cerebral cortex, mantle, lens cortex, cerebral mantle

2. cortexnoun

   the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal

   Antonyms:
   medulla

   Synonyms:
   pallium, cerebral cortex, lens cortex, cerebral mantle

3. lens cortex, cortexnoun

   the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus

   Antonyms:
   medulla

   Synonyms:
   lens cortex, cerebral cortex, pallium, cerebral mantle

How to use cortex in a sentence?

1. Amy Arnsten:

   It's a double whammy. At the same time the prefrontal cortex is getting weaker and more primitive, the brain circuits that generate emotion like fear are getting stronger, you start seeing the world as harmful even when it's not.

2. Glenn Levine:

   Often we let our mind quickly react to something before we've truly had time to allow our higher levels of cognitive functioning, our prefrontal cortex, to weigh in, we want to pause, ponder and digest this, and take a couple seconds to decide what is the most skillful way to react.

3. Amy Arnsten:

   One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses.

4. Amy Arnsten:

   These stress-signaling pathways get released and they rapidly impair the higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex that includes things like working memory, with chronic stress, you actually lose gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, in sadly the exact regions that are involved with inhibiting the stress response and those areas that give you insight that you’re needing help.

5. David Diamond:

   It’s not stupidity, it’s that children and teens have partially formed brains, it’s a capacity to look to the future -- that’s really what the frontal cortex does and that’s what preteens lack, an appreciation for the consequence of their actions.

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