Abbreviation

DORsm

Species

Rat

Description of part

On embryological grounds the mammalian thalamus has most commonly been divided into epithalamus (note 224), dorsal thalamus (DOR), and ventral thalamus (Table A, note 30) (see Alvarez-Bolado and Swanson 1996). Dorsal thalamic nuclei project in a topographically organized way to virtually all parts of the cortical mantle, and are thought to develop more or less as a unit. We have chosen to represent the dorsal thalamus as a unit (divided into parts innervating predominantly sensory-motor related cortical areas, and parts innervating predominantly polymodal association related cortical areas) in this hierarchy because of the obvious topographic relationships displayed by its cortical projections-rather than attempting to distribute its various components to the various sensory and other modalities arranged below. The latter approach generates a more complex Table.

Part type

gray matter

Nomenclature

Swanson-2004

Endorsement

The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is not endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.

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