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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Neurophysiol. 1997 Jan;14(1):2–31. doi: 10.1097/00004691-199701000-00002

FIG. 7.

FIG. 7.

Course of the medially projecting component of the spinothalamic tract of a macaque monkey. The cells of the spinothalamic tract that project just to the intralaminar nuclei of the medial thalamus originate in the deep dorsal horn and the ventral horn of the spinal cord. The axons decussate immediately and then ascend in the ventral and then in the ventrolateral white matter. After passing through the brainstem, they terminate in the intralaminar nuclei, especially the central lateral (CL) nucleus.