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    the medial lemniscus cause an impairment of vibratory and touch-pressure sense. Lemniscus means "ribbon", reflecting the elongated tract of the medial lemniscus...
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  • Thumbnail for Dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway
    The dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway (DCML) (also known as the posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway (PCML) is the major sensory pathway of the...
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  • A lemniscus (Greek for ribbon or band) is a bundle of secondary sensory fibers in the brainstem. The medial lemniscus and lateral lemniscus terminate...
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    of the lateral lemniscus. There are three small nuclei on each of the lateral lemnisci: the intermediate nucleus of the lateral lemniscus (INLL) the ventral...
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    of the medial lemniscus due to the close proximity of the two ascending tracts. Like the medial lemniscus in the dorsal column-medial lemniscus pathway...
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    the spinal cord, rather than in the brainstem like the dorsal column-medial lemniscus pathway and lateral corticospinal tract. It is one of the three tracts...
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    arteries) leads to death of the ipsilateral medullary pyramid, the medial lemniscus, and the hypoglossal nerve fibers that pass through the medulla. The...
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    these nuclei are the second-order neurons of the posterior column-medial lemniscus pathway, and their axons, called the internal arcuate fibers or fasciculi...
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  • Thumbnail for Medial longitudinal fasciculus
    The medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) is a prominent bundle of nerve fibres which pass within the ventral/anterior portion of periaqueductal gray of...
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  • Thumbnail for Dorsal column nuclei
    nuclei are a pair of nuclei in the dorsal columns of the dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway (DCML) in the brainstem. The name refers collectively to the...
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  • Thumbnail for Sensory decussation
    the decussation is called the medial lemniscus. Unlike other ascending tracts of the brain, fibres of the medial lemniscus do not give off collateral branches...
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    spinal injury. This is a result of a lesion affecting the dorsal column-medial lemniscus tract, well localized (deep) touch, conscious proprioception, vibration...
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    include the corticospinal tract (motor function), the dorsal column-medial lemniscus pathway (fine touch, vibration sensation, and proprioception), and...
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    The dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway (DCML pathway), and the anterolateral system (ALS). In the dorsal column-medial lemniscus pathway, a primary...
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  • Thumbnail for Ventral posteromedial nucleus
    neighbour the ventral posterolateral nucleus serves for dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway 2nd-order neurons. The term "ventral posteromedial nucleus"...
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    second-order neurons of the neospinothalamic tract and medial lemniscus (of the dorsal column-medial lemniscus pathway) which synapse with the third-order neurons...
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    nuclei of cranial nerves VI and VII, corticospinal tract, medial lemniscus, and the medial longitudinal fasciculus. There is involvement of the fifth...
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    vestibulospinal tract Medial vestibulospinal tract Reticulospinal tract Lateral raphespinal tract Alpha system Gamma system Dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway Gracile...
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    the body is carried to the thalamus by the medial lemniscus, and from the face by the trigeminal lemniscus (both the anterior and posterior trigeminothalamic...
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  • then decussates in the medial lemniscus of the medulla, travels through the cuneate nucleus and through the medial lemniscus of the midbrain to synapse...
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    then called the medial lemniscus. The internal arcuate fibers are part of the second-order neurons of the posterior column-medial lemniscus system, and are...
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    Pectoralis major (category Shoulder medial rotators)
    neuron in the dorsal column medial lemniscus tract to the medulla. There, the fibers decussate to form the medial lemniscus which carries the sensory information...
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    cerebellum and by the dorsal column-medial lemniscus tract. The motor pathway is the corticospinal (pyramidal) tract and the medial and lateral vestibular tracts...
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    touch/vibration information ascends the spinal cord via the dorsal column-medial lemniscus pathway via gracilis (T7 and below) or cuneatus (T6 and above). Cuneatus...
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  • the dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway. The pathway is composed of the dorsal column within the spinal cord and the medial lemniscus in the brain stem...
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  • of pain. It may occur in any disease that damages the dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway, which transmits sensory information from the periphery to...
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    nerve tracts between other parts of the brain pass through it. The medial lemniscus – a narrow ribbon of fibres – passes through in a relatively constant...
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    or lower spinal cord. Ascending sensory tracts in the dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway (DCML) carry information from the periphery to the cortex of...
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    discriminative and light touch are conveyed to via the dorsal column medial lemniscus pathway. The head and neck use pathways involving the spinal trigeminal...
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    with 8', its nucleus of origin Lemniscus (in blue) with a' the medial lemniscus and a" the lateral lemniscus Medial longitudinal fasciculus Raphé Temporopontine...
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