Corticospinal tract
Pyramidal white matter motor pathway / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The corticospinal tract is a white matter motor pathway starting at the cerebral cortex that terminates on lower motor neurons and interneurons in the spinal cord, controlling movements of the limbs and trunk.[1] There are more than one million neurons in the corticospinal tract, and they become myelinated usually in the first two years of life.
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Latin | tractus corticospinalis |
FMA | 265580 |
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The corticospinal tract is one of the pyramidal tracts, the other being the corticobulbar tract.