Figure 1. Stimulation target: Dentato-thalamo-cortical pathway.

Diagram depicting the projections from the lateral cerebellar nucleus (bottom) to ventrolateral thalamus (middle) to cortex (top). At the lateral cerebellar nucleus (LCN) level, the blue bar in the LCN indicates the location of fiber cannula implant (contralesional LCN). This tract, originating from neurons in the LCN, projects through the ipsilateral superior cerebellar peduncle. After decussating in the midbrain tegmentum, the axons synapse in the contralesional ventrolateral thalamus (blue) from which second order neurons send projections to multiple cortical regions including the premotor, primary motor, prefrontal and posterior parietal areas. The region of the yellow hatch marks represents the infarct areas (striatum and cortex) produced by transient middle cerebral artery occlusion.