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Defined
by its function in emotion, learning and memory, |
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| **receives visual stimuli from optic tract, with connections to superior colliculus |
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| receives auditory input with connections to inferior colliculus |
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carries the most important, somatotopically arranged, afferent and efferent
pathways |
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| the opercular and triangular portions of inferior frontal gyrus |
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make up Brodmann areas 44 and 45,
the motor speech cortex in the dominant hemisphere (usually on the left) |
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| Brodmann area 4, the “primary motor cortex |
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| Brodmann areas 3, 1, and 2, the “primary somatosensory cortex |
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Brodmann area 40, an association area that interrelate somesthetic, visual
and auditory stimuli |
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Brodmann area 39 plays a role in comprehension of the visual symbols and
auditory sounds of language |
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| Brodmann areas 41 & 42 make up the primary auditory receptive cortex |
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| has probably a viscerosensory and visceromotor function |
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located in the lamina terminalis in the anterior wall of the third ventricle; also
connects amygdala to amygdala |
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a small fiber bundle traversing the midline inferior to the
pineal gland and superior to the rostral limit of the cerebral aqueduct |
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| Important synaptic center of nearly all afferent and numerous efferent tracts. |
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function: mainly autonomic. Some of its nuclei produce hormones that are
transported to neurohypophysis and stored |
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medial most gyrus of the inferior temporal lobe;
bounded bu collateral sulcus; learning and memory function |
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| debtate nucleus of the cerebellum |
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mediates finely articulated, learned movements of
digits and motor learning |
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| interposed nuclei (= emboliform + globose) |
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mediate coordinated ongoing
movements of proximal limbs |
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mediates coordinated axial posture and gaze (midline
structures) |
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disappear at superior margin of pons. Carry
descending motor tracts |
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the inferior pair of rounded elevations on the dorsal surface of
the midbrain; a relay structure for auditory pathway. |
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the superior pair of rounded elevations on the dorsal surface
of the midbrain tectum; a relay structure for visual pathways. |
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| middle cerebellar peduncles |
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relays fibers projecting from motor
cortex via pons to cerebellum (corticopontocerebellar fibers). |
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marks the position of the nucleus gracilis (synaptic target of the fasciculus
gracilis). |
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marks the position of the nucleus
cuneatus (synaptic target of the fasciculus cuneatus). |
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stroke lesions here
cause a characteristic flailing motion usually affecting one side (hemiballismus) |
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