CORTICORUBRAL fibers enter the RED NUCLEUS

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Here's where the cortico-rubral fibers begin to depart from the corticospinal ones. Note that if you were to make a clean section of the cerebral peduncle at this level you would get the entire corticospinal tract, but leave the cortico-rubro-spinal pathway intact. Click on "key" to look at the next (caudal) slide. Click on the red ball to return to the text, by way of the call-up view)