The primate motor thalamus analysed with reference to subcortical afferent territories.
This paper analyses the internal organisation of the primate motor thalamus. A topographic study of the three main subcortical afferent territories (the cerebellar, pallidal and nigral territories) gives a much simpler and more functionally relevant partitioning of the thalamus than consideration of conflictual cytoarchitectonic nuclei.
Laboratoire de neuromorphologie informationnelle et de neurologie expérimentale du mouvement, Pavillon Inserm, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Percheron
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François
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Talbi
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Meder
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Fenelon
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Yelnik
D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000502:physiology*; D005917:Globus Pallidus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008251:Macaca / Q000502:physiology*; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D013378:Substantia Nigra / Q000502:physiology*; D013787:Thalamic Nuclei / Q000502:physiology*