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Taste information is carried by three cranial nerves from the oral cavity to the central nervous system. Which CNS area do these nerves project to?

Identify the white matter indicated by the tip of the blue arrow.

Select ALL the structures that are part of the indirect pathway that do NOT participate in the direct pathway:

A stroke affecting the posterior limb of the internal capsule will result in

Identify the termination and laterality of the structure indicated by the tip of the red arrow.

Identify the origin and laterality of the fibers indicated by the tip of the red arrow.

Identify the termination and laterality of the tract within the red dotted line.

Both the cerebrocerebellum and the spinocerebellum project to the red nucleus. Excluding the rubrospinal tract, the red nucleus then projects to the ________________.

Dopamine is released in striatum in a person with no basal ganglia pathology. In this case, the direct pathway shows ___________ population electrical activity and the indirect pathway shows _____________ population. This causes the VL of thalamus to increase electrical firing. Increased VL activity thereby leads to  ______________ movement.

The premotor cortex functions at which level of Hughlings Jackson and/or Luria’s hierarchical model?