Identifier: diseasesofnervo00jell (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the nervous system : a text-book of neurology and psychiatry
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 1866-1945 White, William A. (William Alanson), 1870-1937
Subjects: Mental Disorders Nervous System Diseases
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

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, Burdachs column; ca, anterior cerebellar fasciculus to the vermis through theanterior medullary velum co, cerebello-olivary fibers; cp, common path from posteriorcolumn nuclei to vermis; d, dentate nucleus; fi, internal arcuate fibers; /p, posteriorarcuate fibers; ft, fibers from vermis cortex to tegmental nuclei; G, column of Goll;a corticovermis association fibers; gl, nucleus globosus; p, nucleus emboliformis;rv, posterior sensory root fibers; sc, subcortical paths of the brachiumconjunctivum;so, olivospinal tract; t, tegmental nuclei; tr, fasciculus spinocerebellaris; Vi, inferiorvermis; Vs, superior vermis. (Bechterew.) 404 CEREBELLAR SYNDROMES the impulses coming from the cord and brain stem traversing thepaths just enumerated, giving information chiefly concerning thestates of tension of the muscular apparatus of the trunk, the extremi-ties, and the head, and the states of pressure in the joints and tendons.The reflexes combine to regulate the constantly altering positions of
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Fig. 207.—Descending pontine and cerebellar tracts: VI, root fibers abducens; cp,corticopontine fibers; crp, fibers from pons to cerebellum; d, dentate nucleus; fed,cerebello-Deiters fibers; fo, tegmento-olivary fibers; ft, fibers from vermis to tegmentalnuclei; g, cortical association fibers; NVI, abducens nucleus; nd, Dieters nucleus;Nol, inferior olive; nt, tegmental nuclei; os, superior olive; ra, anterior root fibers.(Bechterew.) the entire body in space, and possibly some of the viscera. Thecerebellum therefore, in this sense, acts as a regulating, coordinatingorgan for the estimation of the body in space. To the spinal, midbrain,cerebral reflex arcs there are also added fronto-pyramido-ponto-bulbo-cerebellar arcs which contain involuntary as well as voluntary regula- SYMPTOMS 405 tory coordinating impulses, acting to orient the body in practicallyall of its spatial relations. Cyon adds that therefore the cerebellumis intimately concerned with the mathematical sense in its obj

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