Template:Neural tracts

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v • d • e Brain and spinal cord: neural tracts and fasciculi Sensory/ascending: PCML Pacinian corpuscle/Meissner's corpuscle → PCML → arcuate fibers (Posterior external arcuate fibers, Internal arcuate fibers) - Medial lemniscus → Thalamus → Postcentral gyrus Sensory/ascending: anterolateral system Free nerve ending → Spinothalamic tract (Lateral, Anterior) → Spinal lemniscus → Postcentral gyrus Spinoreticular tract → Reticular formation Spinotectal tract → Midbrain tectum Motor/descending: pyramidal and extrapyramidal flexion: Primary motor cortex → Posterior limb of internal capsule → Decussation of the pyramids → Corticospinal tract (Lateral, Anterior) → Neuromuscular junction flexion: Red nucleus → Rubrospinal tract extension: Vestibulocerebellum → Vestibular nuclei → Vestibulospinal tract extension: Vestibulocerebellum → Reticular formation → Reticulospinal tract Midbrain tectum → Tectospinal tract → muscles of neck Bidirectional: Spinocerebellar Unconscious proprioception: Golgi tendon organ → Spinocerebellar (Dorsal/Dorsal nucleus of Clarke/Column of Clarke, Cuneocerebellar) → Cerebellum Reflex arc: Ventral - Rostral Brain only Medial longitudinal fasciculus Vestibular nucleus → Vestibulocerebellar tract → Cerebellum Pontine nuclei → Pontocerebellar fibers → Deep cerebellar nuclei Inferior olivary nucleus → Olivocerebellar tract → Cerebellar hemisphere Primary motor cortex → Genu of internal capsule → Corticobulbar tract → brainstem see also white matter fibers