The mammillotegmental fasciculus (mammillotegmental tract, or mammillotegmental bundle of Gudden) is a small bundle of efferent fibers from the hypothalamus running from the mammillary body to the tegmentum.[1] Its functions are not well defined for humans, but based on animal studies it seems to be related to regulating visceral function and processing spatial information.[2] The mammillotegmental fasciculus was first described by the German neuroanatomist, Bernhard von Gudden, from which it takes its alternate name, mammillo-tegmental bundle of Gudden.[3]
| Mammillotegmental fasciculus | |
|---|---|
| Details | |
| Part of | Midbrain |
| System | Limbic |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | fasciculus mammillotegmentalis |
| NeuroNames | 423 |
| TA98 | A14.1.08.953 |
| TA2 | 5758 |
| FMA | 62058 |
| Anatomical terminology | |
The mammillotegmental fasciculus emerges from the principal mammillary fasciculus of the mammillary body and travels dorsally together with the mammillothalamic tract before splitting off and turning caudally to enter the spinal column. There, it terminates in the tegmentum of the midbrain at the dorsal and ventral tegmental nuclei and the tegmental pontine reticular nucleus.[4]
References
edit- ^ Martin C. Hirsch (1999). Dictionary of Human Neuroanatomy. Springer. p. 79. ISBN 978-3540665236.
- ^ Kwon, Hyeok Gyu; Hong, Ji Heon; Jang, Sung Ho (2011-05-03). "Mammillotegmental tract in the human brain: diffusion tensor tractography study". Neuroradiology. 53 (8): 623–626. doi:10.1007/s00234-011-0858-y. ISSN 0028-3940. PMID 21538047. S2CID 8494350.
- ^ Donkelaar, Hans J. ten (2011-06-21). Clinical Neuroanatomy: Brain Circuitry and Its Disorders (1 ed.). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- ^ Waxman, Stephen (2013-08-02). Clinical Neuroanatomy 27/E (27 ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Medical. ISBN 9780071797979.
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