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Portable Thermographic Screening for Detection of Acute Wallenberg's Syndrome
Published on: September 19, 2019
[Vascular syndromes of the thalamus]
C H Nolte1, M Endres, G J Jungehülsing
1Klinik für Neurologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin und Centrum für Schlaganfallforschung Berlin (CSB), Berlin, Deutschland. christian.nolte@charite.de
Abstract:
The thalamus comprises numerous nuclei that can be grouped into five major functional domains: (1) the reticular and intralaminar nuclei influence arousal and nociception, (2) sensory nuclei handle afferent pathways, (3) the effector nuclei are involved in motor function and language, (4) associative nuclei participate in higher cognitive functions and (5) limbic nuclei influence mood and motivation. The thalamic nuclei are mainly supplied by the following four cerebral arteries: paramedian artery, anterior thalamoperforating artery, thalamogeniculate artery and posterior choroidal artery (lateral branches). Occlusions of these arteries affect the thalamic nuclei to varying degrees and produce partly characteristic and partly overlapping deficits. This article describes the clinical pictures.
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