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medial dorsal nucleus of thalamus

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The medial dorsal nucleus (or dorsomedial nucleus of thalamus) is a large nucleus in the thalamus. It receives inputs from the Pre-Frontal Cortex and the Limbic System and in turn relays them to the Pre-Frontal Association Cortex. As a result, it plays a crucial role in attention, planning, organization, abstract thinking, multi-tasking and active memory. The connections of the medial dorsal nucleus have even been used to delineate the prefrontal cortex of the Göttingen minipig brain. By stereology the number of brain cells in the region has been estimated to around 6.43 million neurons in the adult human brain and 36.3 million glial cells, and with the newborn having quite different numbers: around 11.2 million neurons and 10.6 million glial cells. Lesions of the medial dorsal nucleus have been associated with Wernicke's encephalopathy [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial_dorsal_nucleus ]

Synonyms: dorsal medial nucleus of thalamus, medial dorsal nucleus of thalamus, dorsomedial nucleus of thalamus, mediodorsal nucleus of thalamus, nucleus dorsomedialis thalami, medial nuclear group of thalamus, medial dorsal thalamic nucleus, mediodorsal thalamic nucleus

Term info

database cross reference
  • BIRNLEX:1543
  • MA:0000863
  • MESH:D020645
  • UMLS:C0228329 (ncithesaurus:Dorsomedial_Nucleus_of_the_Thalamus)
  • EV:0100200
  • GAID:663
  • BAMS:MD
  • FMA:62156
  • HBA:4401
  • EMAPA:35296
  • BAMS:MTh
  • Wikipedia:Medial_dorsal_nucleus
  • BAMS:MED
  • SCTID:279149008
  • neuronames:312 (BIRNLEX:1543)
  • MBA:362
  • BTO:0002453
  • BM:Die-Th-MD
  • NCIT:C32480
  • DHBA:10398
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RO 0002171

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003031

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Editor node: consider generic medial nuclear group and adding medioventral as sibling of this

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/ThalamicNuclei.png

has related synonym

medial thalamic nuclear group, nucleus medialis dorsalis (Hassler), dorsal thalamus medial division, nucleus thalamicus mediodorsalis, nucleus medialis dorsalis thalami, mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus, nucleus mediodorsalis thalami, nuclei mediales (thalami), medial group of the dorsal thalamus

has broad synonym

mediodorsal nucleus, nucleus medialis dorsalis, medial thalamic nucleus, medial nuclear group, dorsomedial nucleus, medial thalamic nuclei, dorsomedial nuclear group, medial dorsal nucleus

id

UBERON:0002739

prefLabel

Medial nuclear group of thalamus