ANAT 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spinothalamic Tract, Basal Ganglia, List Of Thalamic Nuclei
6 Nov 2020
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Lecture 11 thalamus to relay information to the cerebral cortex. It regulates the flow of information up to the cerebral cortex. 2 pathways, we followed them all the way up to the thalamus. The thalamus is the gateway to the cerebral cortex. With a few exceptions, anything that wants to get to the cortex must pass through. Let"s find out what the thalamus is doing. Now, let"s find out what"s going on in the thalamus and why do we need the the thalamus. So, it"s kind of a gatekeeper, regulating the flow of information to the. The thalamus is inside the brain, we can"t see it from here. There"s 2 of them, one on either side. There"s shaped sort of like distorted football. The 2 thalamus are just/barely touching each other"s. The human thalamus is about the size of my pinky bended. Pretty much all of the information that getting up to the cortex is going through the.
