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Excitatory Signals from the Intracerebellar Nuclei

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The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine

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A general survey of the nuclear efferents of the cerebellum is given by the summarizing diagrams of Jansen and Brodal (1954 Fig. 71; 1958 Fig. 187). Considering the extreme multiplicity of these connexions, and that the scope of this monograph is limited to the general neuronal mechanisms of the cerebellum, there would be no point in embarking on a detailed discussion of these connexions. Everything known about them has been so well documented by Jansen and Brodal (1954, 1958) that nothing could be added to these masterpieces of functional anatomical analysis. The principal nucleofugal projections are schematically illustrated in Fig. 124 and only a very brief description will be given below of the synaptic relation of cerebellar efferents in the red nucleus and in the ventralis lateralis (VL) nucleus of the thalamus.

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  1. Institute for Biomedical Research, American Medical Association, Education and Research Foundation, 535 North Dearborn Street, 606 10, Chicago, Ill., USA

    Professor Dr. John C. Eccles

  2. University of Tokyo, Japan

    Dr. Masao Ito (Associate Professor of Physiology Faculty of Medicine)

  3. Department of Anatomy University Medical School, Tüzoltó utca 58, Budapest, IX., Hungary

    Professor Dr. János Szentágothai

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Eccles, J.C., Ito, M., Szentágothai, J. (1967). Excitatory Signals from the Intracerebellar Nuclei. In: The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13147-3_15

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