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    In neuroanatomy, the corticobulbar (or corticonuclear) tract is a two-neuron white matter motor pathway connecting the motor cortex in the cerebral cortex...
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    The pyramidal tracts include both the corticobulbar tract and the corticospinal tract. These are aggregations of efferent nerve fibers from the upper...
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    is one of the pyramidal tracts, the other being the corticobulbar tract. The corticospinal tract originates in several parts of the brain, including not...
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  • Thumbnail for Corona radiata
    radiata is associated with the corticopontine tract, the corticobulbar tract, and the corticospinal tract. Projection fibers are afferents carrying information...
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    of the posterior limb contains fibers of the corticospinal tract and corticobulbar tract (in an anteroposterior somatotropic arrangement), as well as...
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    Corticobulbar tract Corticomesencephalic tract Tectospinal tract Interstitiospinal tract Rubrospinal tract Rubro-olivary tract Olivocerebellar tract Olivospinal...
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  • Thumbnail for Medullary pyramids (brainstem)
    contain motor fibers of the corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts – known together as the pyramidal tracts. The lower limit of the pyramids is marked when...
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    nucleus. This pathway from the cortex to the brainstem is called the corticobulbar tract. The neurons in the dorsal aspect of the facial motor nucleus receive...
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    medulla. It receives upper motor neuron innervation directly via the corticobulbar tract. This nucleus gives rise to the branchial efferent motor fibers of...
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    pyramids of the medulla. The pyramidal tracts (corticospinal tract and corticobulbar tracts) may directly innervate motor neurons of the spinal cord or brainstem...
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    cortex (in association with other cortical areas) and pass via the corticobulbar tract in the genu of the internal capsule to synapse bilaterally on the...
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  • the sigma-1 receptors that mediate the emotional motor expression. Corticobulbar tract Bulbar palsy, a similar syndrome caused by the damage of lower motor...
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    (intersect) within the lower medulla oblongata to form the lateral corticospinal tract on each side of the spinal cord. The fibers that do not decussate will pass...
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    maintenance. Important fiber tracts that run through the cerebral peduncles are the corticospinal, corticopontine, and corticobulbar tracts. Damage to the cerebral...
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  • theorized that PBA occurs when bilateral lesions in the descending corticobulbar tract cause failure of voluntary control of emotion, which leads to the...
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  • with cerebral palsy. It is caused by inadequate development of the corticobulbar tracts and causes problems with the mouth and tongue including impaired...
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  • basilar artery that supply the pontine nuclei, corticobulbar tract, corticospinal tract, and corticopontine tract, with rami supplying some middle cerebellar...
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  • Thumbnail for Vestibulospinal tract
    medulla. The pyramidal pathways, such as corticospinal and some corticobulbar tracts, may directly innervate motor neurons of the spinal cord or brainstem...
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  • (i.e. from the opposite side of the brain). Thus, lesions of the corticobulbar tract between the cerebral cortex and pons and the facial motor nucleus...
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    contralateral cerebral crus containing descending corticospinal and some corticobulbar tract fibers. This leads to Ipsilateral hemiparesis in reference to the...
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    tract is so named because it connects the cerebral cortex to cranial nerve nuclei. (The corticonuclear tract is also called the corticobulbar tract,...
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    contralateral because it occurs before the decussation in the medulla. corticobulbar tract difficulty with contralateral lower facial muscles and hypoglossal...
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  • but in which the damage is located in upper motor neurons of the corticobulbar tracts in the mid-pons (i.e., in the cranial nerves IX-XII), that is the...
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    the pyramidal tracts–the corticospinal and the corticobulbar tracts of the nervous system. At the caudal part of the medulla these tracts cross over in...
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  • (linguals) and velars, and may show problems with drooling saliva. If the corticobulbar tract is affected a pseudobulbar affect with emotional changes may occur...
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  • term for the medulla oblongata, as used for example in the term corticobulbar tract Bulbus arteriosus Bulbus cordis Bulbus duodeni Bulbus glandis Bulbus...
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    Pyramidal tracts – corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts Medial forebrain bundle Dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway Retinohypothalamic tract is a photic...
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  • Effect dentatorubral tract fibers contralateral ataxia corticospinal tract fibers contralateral hemiparesis corticobulbar tract fibers contralateral hemiplegia...
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    atrophy, motor cortex atrophy, sclerosis of the corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts, thinning of the hypoglossal nerves (which control the tongue), and...
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  • Thumbnail for Foix–Chavany–Marie syndrome
    neurosurgeon to alleviate some symptoms. Pseudobulbar palsy Operculum Corticobulbar tracts Wernicke's aphasia Broca's aphasia Bakar, M; Kirshner, HS; Niaz,...
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