Journal
CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 811-818Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj024
Keywords
cerebellum; diffusion imaging; macaque; pontine nuclei; prefrontal cortex
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- MRC [G0501316] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0501316] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0501316] Funding Source: Medline
- Multiple Sclerosis Society [748] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust [078204] Funding Source: Medline
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The cortico-ponto-cerebellar system is one of the largest projection systems in the primate brain, but in the human brain the nature of the information processing in this system remains elusive. Determining the areas of the cerebral cortex which contribute projections to this system will allow us to better understand information processing within it. Information from the cerebral cortex is conveyed to the cerebellum by topographically arranged fibres in the cerebral peduncle - an important fibre system in which all cortical outputs spatially converge on their way to the cerebellum via the pontine nuclei. Little is known of their anatomical organization in the human brain. New in vivo diffusion imaging and probabilistic tractography methods now offer a way in which input tracts in the cerebral peduncle can be characterized in detail. Here we use these methods to contrast their organization in humans and macaque monkeys. We confirm the dominant contribution of the cortical motor areas to the macaque monkey cerebral peduncle. However, we also present novel anatomical evidence for a relatively large prefrontal contribution to the human cortico-ponto-cerebellar system in the cerebral peduncle. These findings suggest the selective evolution of prefrontal inputs to the human cortico-ponto-cerebellar system.
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