Mammilothalamic tract

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Done

Parent item

Association fibres

Aka

• Mammillothalamic tract of Vick D'Azyr

Connection

• Medial mammillary nucleus → anterior nucleus of the thalamus

Function

• Papez short term memory circuit
• Together with
• Anterior nucleus of the thalamus
• Anterior thalamic radiations
• Cingulum
• Entorhinal cortex
• Hippocampus
• Fornix
• Mammillary bodies

• Spatial orientation

Deficits

• Amnesia with confabulation (Wernicke encephalopathy → Korsakoff syndrome)

• Topographical amnesia

Relations

• Superficial
• Ependymal layer of 3rd ventricle

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