Vestibulo-oculomotor fibers

Brain: Vestibulo-oculomotor fibers
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The vestibulo-oculomotor fibers are the portion of the medial longitudinal fasciculus which ascends to the oculomotor nucleus from the vestibular nuclei.

See also

• Vestibulo-ocular reflex

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v • d • e Human brain, rhombencephalon, metencephalon: pons (TA A14.1.05.101-604, GA 9.785) Dorsal/ (tegmentum) Surface Cerebellopontine angle · Superior medullary velum White: Sensory/ascending Trapezoid body/VIII · Trigeminal lemniscus (Dorsal trigeminal tract, Ventral trigeminal tract) · Medial lemniscus MLF, III, IV and VI: Vestibulo-oculomotor fibers Anterior trigeminothalamic tract White: Motor/descending ICP (Vestibulocerebellar tract) MLF, III, IV and VI: Vestibulospinal tract (Medial vestibulospinal tract, Lateral vestibulospinal tract) Grey: Cranial nuclei afferent: GSA: Principal V/Spinal V · VIII-c (Dorsal, Anterior)/VIII-v (Lateral, Superior, Medial, Inferior) efferent: SVE: Motor V  · VII · GSE: VI · GVE: VII: Superior salivary nucleus Other grey Apneustic center · Pneumotaxic center (Medial parabrachial nucleus) · Lateral parabrachial nucleus · Superior olivary nucleus Ventral/ (base) Grey Pontine nuclei White: Motor/descending Corticospinal tract · Corticobulbar tract · Corticopontine fibers MCP (Pontocerebellar fibers) Surface Basilar sulcus Other grey: Raphe/ reticular Reticular formation (Caudal, Oral, Tegmental, Paramedian) · Raphe nuclei (Median)

v • d • e Human brain: mesencephalon (midbrain) (TA A14.1.06, GA 9.800) Tectum (Dorsal) Surface Corpora quadrigemina: Inferior colliculi (Brachium of inferior colliculus), Superior colliculi (Brachium of superior colliculus) Grey matter Pretectal area White: Sensory/ascending Spinotectal tract White: Motor/descending Tectospinal tract Peduncle (Ventral) Peduncle tegmentum White: Sensory/ascending lemnisci (Medial, Lateral) · Ascending MLF (Vestibulo-oculomotor fibers) · Spinothalamic tract · Anterior trigeminothalamic tract · Dentatothalamic tract White: Motor/descending Rubrospinal tract · Rubro-olivary tract · Descending MLF Grey: cranial nuclei GSA (V: Mesencephalic) - GSE (III: Oculomotor, IV: Trochlear) - GVE (III: Edinger-Westphal) Grey: other Periaqueductal gray (Dorsal raphe nucleus) Ventral tegmental area • Pedunculopontine nucleus • Red nucleus riMLF Ventricular system Cerebral aqueduct Peduncle base White: Motor/descending Cerebral crus: Corticospinal tract · Corticobulbar tract · Corticopontine tract/Frontopontine fibers/Temporopontine fibers Grey: Substantia nigra Pars compacta · Pars reticulata Surface Superior cerebellar peduncles (Decussation of superior cerebellar peduncle) · Interpeduncular fossa

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