| Thalamic Nuclei | Input | Output | | VPL | Sensory from body and limbs |
Somatosensory cortex |
| VPM | Sensory from face, taste | Somatosensory cortex |
| VA/VL | Motor info from BG, cerebellum |
Motor cortices |
| LGB | Visual from optic tract |
First-degree visual cortex |
| MGB | Auditory from inferior colliculus |
First-degree auditory cortex |
| AN | Mamillary nucleus (via mamillothalamic tract) | Cingulate gyrus (part of Papez circuit) |
| MD |
(Dorsomedial nucleus). Involved in memory
Damaged in Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome |
| Pulvinar | Helps integrate somesthetic, visual, and auditory input |
| Midline/intralaminar | Involved in arousal |
| Abbreviations: AN, anterior nuclear group; BG, basal ganglia; LGB, lateral geniculate body; MD, mediodorsal nucleus; MGB, medial geniculate body; VA, ventral anterior nucleus; VL, ventral lateral nucleus; VPL, ventroposterolateral nucleus; VPM, ventroposteromedial nucleus |
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