Talk:Red nucleus

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[edit] fine motor control of hands...? possible error

first section it states " fine control of the fingers is not modified by the functioning of the red nucleus (rather it relies on the corticobulbar tract [CoBuTr])."

cross-checking the article for cortico-bulbar tract gives information about the control of face, head, and neck muscles, while the article for corticospinal tract states that the corticospinal tract is for fine control of fingers/hands.

i'm just a first-year neuroscience grad student, so i didn't want to edit the content myself. i'll leave it up to the experts.

165.124.163.2 (talk) 02:29, 19 March 2008 (UTC)Jeremy Eagles

-You're right, that's an error. The Corticobulbar tract, by definition, is made up of upper motor neurons from the cerebral cortex to the brainstem (brainstem used to be called 'the bulb'). Fine movements of fingers falls under the control of the corticospinal tract (the upper motor neuron), and spinal nerves (the lower motor neuron). --Geoffsbg (talk) 15:34, 3 May 2008 (UTC)