This section is simply a guided review of labeled slides. As you look at each section, make certain you can identify the structures listed below in the frontal, horizontal, and sagittal sections of the whole brain, and in the frontal sections of the brainstem.

     -- the caudate nucleus
     -- the putamen 
     -- the globus pallidus
     -- the substantia nigra
     -- the subthalamic nucleus
     -- the ventralis anterior nucleus of the thalamus 
     -- the ansa lenticularis 
     -- the fasciculus lenticularis 

FRONTAL SECTIONS THROUGH THE WHOLE BRAIN

HORIZONTAL SECTIONS THROUGH THE WHOLE BRAIN

SAGITTAL SECTIONS THROUGH THE WHOLE BRAIN

FRONTAL SECTIONS THROUGH THE BRAINSTEM  (note slides 23-36)