Anybody know what "dysgrangular" means? It's a neuroscience term, here's the sentence:

"Therefore, whereas BA 44 is classified as dysgrangular, areas 11 and 10 are considered as granular cortex."

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Anybody know what "dysgrangular" means? It's a neuroscience term, here's the sentence:

"Therefore, whereas BA 44 is classified as dysgrangular, areas 11 and 10 are considered as granular cortex."

abb0t · Answer

I am unfamiliar with that word. Maybe @nincompoop may know.

ryjhbl · Answer

The region of the cerebral cortex that is transitional between the agranular cortex of the precentral gyrus and the granular frontal cortex (Brodmann's area 8). Granular and dysgranular retrosplenial cortices provide qualitatively different contributions to spatial working memory. for more reading http://www.lexic.us/definition-of/dysgranular_cortex http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06881.x/abstract