Mammillotegmental tract

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Status

Done

Parent item

Association fibres

Function

• Unknown in humans

• Animals: Regulating visceral function and processing spatial information

Course

• Origin
• Mammillary body

• Route:
• Travels dorsally together with the mammillothalamic tract before splitting off and turning caudally to enter the spinal column.

• Terminates
• Tegmentum of the midbrain at the dorsal and ventral tegmental nuclei and the tegmental pontine reticular nucleus.

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