subthalamus
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The subthalamus or ventral thalamus is a part of the diencephalon. Its most prominent structure is the subthalamic nucleus. The subthalamus connects to the globus pallidus, a subcortical nucleus of the basal ganglia.
Key facts
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- Subthalamus
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- Brain.Caption
- Coronal slices of human brain showing the basal ganglia, subthalamic nucleus (STN) and substantia nigra (SN). STN is in subthalamus; SN is not.
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
6,100 papers- Parkinson's disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder.Nature · 2026
- Convergent mapping of a tremor treatment network.Nature communications · 2025
- Re-engineering the subthalamus.World neurosurgery · 2013
- Subthalamus deep brain stimulation for primary dystonia patients: a long-term follow-up study.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2013
- Differential synaptic depression mediates the therapeutic effect of deep brain stimulation.Nature neuroscience · 2025
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- diencephalon
- Has part
- globus pallidus
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C52731
- Commons category
- Subthalamus
- topic's main category
- Category:Subthalamus
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Structure
- Connections
- References
- External links
The subthalamus or ventral thalamus is a part of the diencephalon. Its most prominent structure is the subthalamic nucleus. The subthalamus connects to the globus pallidus, a subcortical nucleus of the basal ganglia.
==Structure==
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