Lemniscus

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Lemniscus

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Lemniscus conducts protopathic and epicritic sensibility from the spinal cord and brainstem to the appropriate synaptic centers in the thalamus (medial lemniscus). The lateral lemniscus is part of the auditory tract.

Medial Lemniscus

Lateral Lemniscus

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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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(2009). Lemniscus. 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_2754

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_2754
Published: 24 January 2024
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
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