• The ventral trigeminal tract, ventral trigeminothalamic tract, anterior trigeminal tract, or anterior trigeminothalamic tract, is a tract composed of...
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    neuron fibers of the trigeminal system. It consists of the ventral and dorsal trigeminal tracts. Its second-order sensory axons convey tactile, pain, and...
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  • to ascend contralaterally in the ventral trigeminal tract along with those fibers arising from the spinal trigeminal nucleus. The DTT may be likened functionally...
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    second-order general somatic afferent fibers from the ventral trigeminal tract and the dorsal trigeminal tract which convey general somatic sensory information...
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    nucleus projects to the ventral posteriomedial (VPM) nucleus in the contralateral thalamus via the ventral trigeminal tract. The nucleus is situated...
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    retinohypothalamic tract (RHT) is a photic neural input pathway involved in the circadian rhythms of mammals. The origin of the retinohypothalamic tract is the intrinsically...
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    In neuroanatomy, the trigeminal nerve (lit. triplet nerve), also known as the fifth cranial nerve, cranial nerve V, or simply CN V, is a cranial nerve...
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    contains afferent tracts, most prominent of which is the ventral spinocerebellar tract. Other afferent tracts are the ventral trigeminal tract, tectocerebellar...
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    trigeminal nerve. Ventral intermediate nucleus, implicated in oscillatory tremor generation in Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. The ventral posterior...
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    humans it is very small and runs ventral to the lateral corticospinal tract. Descending fibers of the rubro-olivary tract project from the parvocellular...
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    lemniscus, axons from the leg are more ventral, and axons from the arm are more dorsal. Fibres from the trigeminal nerve (supplying the head) come in dorsal...
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    The principal sensory nucleus of trigeminal nerve (or chief sensory nucleus of V, main trigeminal sensory nucleus) is a group of second-order neurons which...
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    Solitary nucleus (Nucleus of the solitary tract) Respiratory center-Respiratory groups Dorsal respiratory group Ventral respiratory group or Apneustic centre...
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    the brain to the spinal cord. Fibres from the ventral motor cortex travel with the corticospinal tract through the internal capsule, but terminate in...
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  • spinal cord → spinoreticular tract → nucleus raphe magnus and gigantocellular raphe nucleus → Raphespinal tract → spinal trigeminal nucleus and posterior grey...
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    corticobulbar tract also end in the sensory nuclei of the brainstem including gracile nucleus, cuneate nucleus, solitary nucleus, and all trigeminal nuclei....
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    spinal trigeminal nucleus. The gray matter of this nucleus is covered by a layer of nerve fibers that form the spinal tract of the trigeminal nerve. The...
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    level of the midpons, CN V (the trigeminal nerve) emerges. Cranial nerve III (the oculomotor nerve) emerges ventrally from the midbrain, while the CN...
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    namely the solitary tract nucleus. More lateral, but also less posterior, are the general somatic afferent nuclei. This is the trigeminal nucleus. Back at...
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    the spinal and principal trigeminal nerve nuclei, which form the general somatic afferent column (GSA) of the trigeminal nerve, and the pontine nuclei...
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    (PNS), although on a structural level the olfactory (I), optic (II), and trigeminal (V) nerves are more accurately considered part of the central nervous...
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    supplied by the lingual nerve (a branch of the mandibular branch (V3) of the trigeminal nerve) for somatosensory perception and by the chorda tympani (a branch...
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    modalities, transmitted through spinoreticular pathways and cranial nerves (trigeminal nerve – polymodal pathways, olfactory nerve, optic nerve and vestibulocochlear...
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    medulla these fibers descend in the spinal trigeminal tract and synapse in the caudal spinal nucleus of the trigeminal. The special sensory component of CN...
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  • VB consists of the ventral posteromedial nucleus (VPM) and the ventral posterolateral nucleus (VPL). In some species, the ventral posterolateral nucleus...
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    transmitting information from the head and neck via the trigeminal nerve synapse at the ventral posteromedial nucleus of the thalamus. The cuneate and...
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    from the face and head enter the brain via cranial nerves such as the trigeminal nerve. The neural pathways that go to the brain are structured such that...
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    second-order neurons then decussate, joining the spinothalamic tract as they ascend to neurons in the ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus. In mammals,...
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    pretectal nuclei, hypothalamus, medial mammillary nucleus, cerebellum trigeminal nuclei, dorsal column nuclei, locus coeruleus, periaqueductal gray, raphe...
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    around the abducens nucleus, then traveling ventrally to exit the ventral pons medial to the spinal trigeminal nucleus. These axons form the motor component...
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