Human brain: diencephalon (TA A14.1.08, GA 9.807) |
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Epithalamus | Surface | Pineal body · Habenula · Habenular trigone · Habenular commissure |
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Grey matter | Pretectal area · Habenular nuclei · Subcommissural organ |
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Thalamus | Surface | Stria medullaris of thalamus · Thalamic reticular nucleus · Taenia thalami |
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Grey matter/ nuclei | paired: AN · Ventral (VA/VL, VP/VPM/VPL) · Lateral (LD, LP, Pulvinar nuclei) · Metathalamus (MG, LG) midline: MD · Intralaminar (Centromedian) · Midline nuclear group · Interthalamic adhesion |
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White matter | Mammillothalamic fasciculus · Pallidothalamic tracts (Ansa lenticularis, Lenticular fasciculus, Thalamic fasciculus) · PCML (Medial lemniscus, Trigeminal lemniscus) · Spinothalamic tract · Lateral lemniscus · Dentatothalamic tract · Acoustic radiation · Optic radiation · Subthalamic fasciculus · Anterior trigeminothalamic tract Medullary laminae |
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Hypothalamus | Surface | Median eminence/Tuber cinereum · Mammillary body · Infundibulum |
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Grey matter | Autonomic zones | Anterior (parasympathetic/heat loss) · Posterior (sympathetic/heat conservation) |
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Endocrine | posterior pituitary: Paraventricular (magnocellular, parvocellular)/Supraoptic (oxytocin/vasopressin) other: Arcuate (dopamine/GHRH) · Preoptic (GnRH) · Suprachiasmatic (melatonin) |
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Emotion | Lateral · Ventromedial · Dorsomedial |
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White matter | afferent (SN → Medial forebrain bundle) · efferent (Mammillothalamic fasciculus → AN, Stria terminalis → Amygdala, Dorsal longitudinal fasciculus → SC) |
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Pituitary | Posterior is diencephalon, but anterior is glandular |
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Subthalamus | Subthalamic nucleus · Zona incerta |
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Ventricular system: Third ventricle | recesses: (Optic recess, Infundibular recess, Suprapineal recess, Pineal recess) Hypothalamic sulcus · Tela chorioidea of third ventricle Subfornical organ Apertures: Interventricular/Monro Posterior commissure |
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| anat(s,m,p,4,e,b,d,c,a,f,l,g)/phys/devp/cell | noco(m,d,e,h,v,s)/cong/tumr,sysi/epon,injr | proc,drug(N1A/2AB/C/3/4/7A/B/C/D) |
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