Table 2.

Compartmental organization of the brain with related axonal pathways.

Deep (periventricular) compartment	Corpus callosum – (segment I)
	Fronto-occipital fascicle (FOF) – (segment I)
	Cortico-striatal fibers (Muratoff’s fascicle) – (segment I)
	Fronto-pontine pathways – (segment I)
Intermediate compartment	Crossroads of projection pathways – (segment II)
	– Thalamocortical fibers
	– Cortico-fugal fibers
	– Callosal radiation
	– Associative sagittal fibers
	Sagittal axonal strata – (segment II)
	– Thalamocortical pathways
	– Basal forebrain cholinergic afferents
	– Cortico-cortical associative fiber system
	Centrum semiovale – (segment III)
	– Long associative fiber system
	– Projection fibers
Superficial compartment	Gyral white matter – (segment IV)
	– Short cortico-cortical fibers
	– U-fibers
	Subplate/subplate remnant
	– Growing front of all afferent pathways
	– Short cortico-cortical fibers
	Intracortical fibers – (segment V)

Axonal pathways are divided in segments (I–V) according to Von Monakow. Table is complementary to Figure 6.