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LECTURES ON THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. 



In the diagram you see a tract descending from the ganglia 

 of the corpus striatum. It lies above the tracts from the cortex. 

 In all probability this terminates in the pons. 



The relations borne by the fibres from the ganglia of the 



FIG. 49. 



Frontal section through the fore- and inter- brains at that point where the fibres of the 



internal capsule become the crusta. 



UnterJiorn, Inf. horn. 



Jiulkfn, Corpus callosnm. 



BirnscJtenkel, Fedunc. cerebri. 



corpus striatum to those from the cortex are in many respects still 

 unknown. The following are the most important points which 

 have been definitely settled. The nucleus lentiformis consists 

 of an outer division (the putamen) and two or more inner 



