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The putamen (; from Latin, meaning "nutshell") is a subcortical nucleus with a rounded structure, in the basal ganglia nuclear group. It is located at the base of the forebrain and above the midbrain.

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Brain.Name: Putamen
Brain.Image: Putamen.svg
Brain.Caption: Putamen (in red) shown within the brain
Brain.Image2: Gray718.png
Brain.Caption2: Coronal section of brain through intermediate mass of third ventricle. (Putamen labeled at top.)
Brain.IsPartOf: Dorsal striatum

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Research

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Putamen vascularization on high-resolution 7T MRI is associated with perfusion and cognitive performance in cerebral small vessel disease.NeuroImage · 2025
The role of the putamen in language: a meta-analytic connectivity modeling study.Brain structure & function · 2017
Aesthetic appreciation correlates positively with putamen and inferior temporal gyrus.Behavioural brain research · 2025
Nigrostriatal tau pathology in parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024
Putamen Structure and Function in Familial Risk for Depression: A Multimodal Imaging Study.Biological psychiatry · 2022

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Image: Putamen.gif

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Commons category: Putamen
short name: Pu
NCI Thesaurus ID: C12452

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