Stria medullaris

Also included are the epithalamus and subthalamic nucleus. The epithalamus is a collective term for the pineal gland, habenular nucleus, stria medullaris, and tenia thalami. The subthalamic nucleus is interconnected with the basal ganglia and plays a role in motor regulation. 

Interestingly, experimental chronic amphetamine and cocaine administration induces degeneration confined to the lateral habenula and its main output pathway, the fasciculus retroflexus (reviewed by Ellison, 1994). The habenula is the key relay in the descending dorsal diencephalic system, consisting of stria medullaris, habenula and fasciculus retroflexus, which links the limbic forebrain and the basal ganglia with lower diencephalic and mesencephalic centers (see for review Ellison, 1994). Dopaminergic dysfunction in this circuit could be implicated in psychiatric diseases including schizophrenia (Ellison, 1994). 

SM nucleus of the stria medullaris 23-24, 82-83, 96-100 sm stria medullaris of the thalamus 21-36, 80-83, 96-112 SMT submammillothalamic nucleus 36-37, 81, 94-95 SMV superior medullary velum 56-65, 79-81, 101-108 SNC substantia nigra, compact part 94-95... 

Forray, M. I., Gysling, K., Andres, M. E., Bustos, G., and Araneda, S. (2000). Medullary noradrenergic neurons projecting to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis express mRNA for the NMDA-NR1 receptor. Brain Res. Bull. 52, 163—169. 

Smith DV, Ye M-K, Li C-S. 2005. Medullary taste responses are modulated by the bed nucleus ofthe stria terminalis. Chem Senses 30 421-434. 

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