How to Use midbrain in a Sentence

midbrain

noun

• In swarming locusts, the midbrain grew more than the optic lobes.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2010
• There are three basic units of an vertebrate brain–the midbrain, forebrain, and the hindbrain.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• As the predator gets closer, however, the forebrain’s grip on the midbrain loosens.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• The midbrain is responsible for our fight, flight and freeze reactions.
  — Dr. Denise Trudeau-Poskas, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• And because the growth was in his midbrain stem, there was no way to remove the tumor, said his mom, Huifan Chan.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
• The study found that the players had lower measures of fractional anisotropy in their right midbrains, which is a part of the brain stem.
  — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The amygdala, in the midbrain, is important for processing emotions.
  — Anna Tan, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• The good news is that even the midbrain can be trained and conditioned for constructive and creative, rather than destructive, responses.
  — Rajni Bakshi, Quartz India, 1 Oct. 2019
• The ventral striatum, located in the midbrain, is part of the limbic system and is linked to perceiving rewards and pleasure.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2022
• In both situations, the neurons in the midbrain's substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area flared up in response to the images.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
• Although only two of the 38 players received a concussion, more than two-thirds of them showed changes to the integrity of the white matter of their midbrains.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 7 Aug. 2019
• Characterized by muscle stiffness and tremors, Parkinson's is caused by the death of dopamine-producing neurons in a section of the midbrain.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 14 May 2018
• One set of axons projected to the periacqueductal gray in the midbrain, an area involved in motor behaviors.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2018
• Otsuna explains that this dorsal view of a 5-day-old zebrafish head shows tissue stained in blue, including the eyes, olfactory pits, forebrain, and midbrain.
  — Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2010
• For a looming stimulus, a nucleus of nerve cells in the midbrain called the optic tectum has served as the prime threat detector since the early days of vertebrate evolution.
  — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
• Deep within the brain—in the areas of the hypothalamus, midbrain and hindbrain—the range of cell types is much greater than in the evolutionarily younger cerebral cortex.
  — Karin Schlott, Scientific American, 18 Dec. 2023
• The scientists were able to create a synthetic midbrain through stem cells that had been modified to mimic the genetic risk factors for a brain disease like Parkinson’s.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2021
• When recalling memories, the thalamus — a small structure within the brain between the cerebral cortex and the midbrain — is activated.
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 14 Apr. 2022
• This revealed that there were roughly triple the number of neurons connecting the mouth-movement control region with the cortex that controls hearing, and a midbrain structure that controls vocalizations.
  — ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
• The researchers looked specifically at the midbrain, a region on the brain stem that governs primitive, thoughtless functions such as hearing and temperature regulation.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 7 Aug. 2019
• Postmortem analysis of his brain showed massive loss of nerve cells in two regions of the thalamus, a structure about the size of a walnut that is found in the midbrain and generally acts as a way station for incoming sensory input.
  — Robert Stickgold, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2015
• For example, the brainstem’s midbrain reticular nucleus, which is involved in initiating movement, is a fairly underexplored region, Abbasi-Asl said.
  — Amber Dance, Quanta Magazine, 9 Feb. 2026