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pre- +‎ somatomotor

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presomatomotor (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) anterior to the somatomotor area of the brain
    • 2012 October 15, Chunming Xie, Feng Bai, Hui Yu, Yongmei Shi, Yonggui Yuan, Gang Chen, Wenjun Li, Guangyu Chen, Zhijun Zhang, Shi-Jiang Li, “Abnormal insula functional network is associated with episodic memory decline in amnestic mild cognitive impairment”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 63, number 1:
      Specifically, for the CN subjects, the left aIns showed significantly positive connectivity with the bilateral operculum, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), presomatomotor area (preSMA), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), inferior parietal cortex (IPC), caudate, putamen, thalamus, and hippocampus.
    • 2013 February 12, Joseph S. Goveas, Chunming Xie, Gang Chen, Wenjun Li, B. Douglas Ward, Malgorzata B. Franczak, Jennifer L. Jones, Piero G. Antuono, Shi-Jiang Li, “Functional Network Endophenotypes Unravel the Effects of Apolipoprotein E Epsilon 4 in Middle-Aged Adults”, in PLOS ONE:
      Abbreviation: RAVLT DR, Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test delayed recall; LPreSMA, left presomatomotor area; LMFG, left middle frontal gyrus; LPcu, left precuneus; LLG, left lingual gyrus; RPreSMA, right presomatomotor area;
    • 2013 October 25, Cuiping Yuan, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhengge Wang, Wei Li, Guanghui Chen, Georg Northoff, Guangming Lu, “Impaired self-referential processing in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: A functional MRI study”, in Neuroscience Letters:
      For the ECC, activation was found in the regions of the pre-somatomotor cortex and supplementary motor area, inferior and middle frontal cortex;