Ansa Lenticularis

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Fiber tract of the subthalamus. The lenticular fasciculus and ansa lenticularis together form the pallidothalamic projection, the biggest efferent of the globus pallidus. The fibers terminate in the ventral lateral thalamic nucleus, which in turn projects to parts of premotor cortex (area 6) and of the supplementary motor area. They arrive at the thalamic nuclei via the thalamic fasciculus.

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2008). Ansa Lenticularis. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_238

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Published: 24 January 2024
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