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Extreme Capsule Is a Bottleneck for Ventral Pathway Publisher



Shekari E1 ; Goudarzi S2 ; Shahriari E3 ; Joghataei MT1
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  1. 1. Department of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Department of pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Source: IBRO Neuroscience Reports Published:2021


Abstract

As neuroscience literature suggests, extreme capsule is considered a whiter matter tract. Nevertheless, it is not clear whether extreme capsule itself is an association fiber pathway or only a bottleneck for other association fibers to pass. Via our review, investigating anatomical position, connectivity and cognitive role of the bundles in extreme capsule, and by analyzing data from the dissection, it can be argued that extreme capsule is probably a bottleneck for the passage of uncinated fasciculus (UF) and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), and these fasciculi are responsible for the respective roles in language processing. © 2021