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The term basal ganglia was originally used to refer to all the nuclear groups buried beneath the cortical mantle (that is, cell groups that are organized in nuclei rather than being laminated; see Chapter 2). As it became clear that a subset of the nuclei played a special role in motor function, the definition was narrowed so that, in its modern usage, the term basal ganglia refers to five structures: the caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus, sub- thalamic nucleus, and substantia nigra.
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Steward, O. (2000). The Basal Ganglia. In: Functional Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1198-3_16
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