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Published on: July 28, 2013
The distribution of the cortical origin of the corticoreticular pathway in the human brain: a diffusion tensor
1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Yeungnam University , Daegu , Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
We investigated the distribution of the cortical origin of the corticoreticular pathway (CRP) in the human brain. Forty normal subjects were recruited and CRPs from four cortical areas were reconstructed. The first cortical origin area of the CRP was the premotor cortex and the next was the primary motor cortex. Although the CRP fibers also originated from the primary somatosensory cortex and prefrontal cortex, they occupied the smallest portion among four regions of interest.
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