Abstract
The diencephalon appears as a large region at the upper end of the brain stem. All the ascending fiber pathways from the spinal cord and brain stem terminate upon nuclei in the diencephalon. From these nuclei the information is relayed onto the cerebral cortex.
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Marcus, E.M., Jacobson, S. (2003). Diencephalon. In: Integrated Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1077-2_15
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