Corticospinal Tracts: Motor Pathways from Brain to Spinal Cord
Corticospinal tracts
The corticospinal tracts are the primary motor pathways from the brain to the spinal cord. They originate in the precentral gyrus of the cerebral cortex and descend through the brainstem and spinal cord to synapse on alpha motor neurons in the ventral horn of the spinal cord.
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