Ventral Lateral Group (Ventral Part)

Anatomy

• The atlas defines this group by clustering diffusion MRI orientation information; its borders do not match histological nuclei one to one.
• In the ventral and lateral thalamus, next to the ventral posterior (sensory relay) nuclei.

Functions

• Reciprocal transfer of motor and sensory information with the cortex.

In the model

How this structure is defined in the 3D model, and the data source.

Najdenovska et al. (2018) thalamic nuclei atlas (diffusion MRI clustering; ICBM 2009a symmetric template). Each voxel of the CerebrA thalamus was assigned to the most probable nucleus in these probability maps; because the atlas thalamus is about 20% larger than CerebrA’s, the borders were fitted to the shell (overlap of the two thalami: Dice 0.86–0.89).

References

This substructure’s card draws on the parent structure’s references: Thalamus.