Lateral vestibular nucleus

Lateral vestibular nucleus

Terminal nuclei of the vestibular nerve, with their upper connections. (Schematic.)
1. Cochlear nerve, with its two nuclei.
2. Accessory nucleus.
3. Tuberculum acusticum.
4. Vestibular nerve.
5. Internal nucleus.
6. Nucleus of Deiters.
7. Nucleus of Bechterew.
8. Inferior or descending root of acoustic.
9. Ascending cerebellar fibers.
10. Fibers going to raphé.
11. Fibers taking an oblique course.
12. Lemniscus.
13. Inferior sensory root of trigeminal.
14. Cerebrospinal fasciculus.
15. Raphé.
16. Fourth ventricle.
17. Inferior peduncle. Origin of striæ medullares.
Details
Identifiers
Latin nucleus vestibularis lateralis
NeuroNames hier-713
NeuroLex ID Lateral vestibular nucleus
Dorlands
/Elsevier
n_11/12584180
TA A14.1.05.427
FMA 54614

Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The lateral vestibular nucleus (Deiters’s nucleus) is the continuation upward and lateralward of the principal nucleus, and in it terminate many of the ascending branches of the vestibular nerve.

Structure

It consists of very large multipolar cells whose axons form an important part of the posterior longitudinal bundle of the same and the opposite side.

The axons bifurcate as they enter the posterior longitudinal bundle,

Other fibers are said to pass directly to the vestibulospinal fasciculus without passing into the posterior longitudinal bundle.

The fibers which pass into the vestibulospinal fasciculus are intimately concerned with equilibratory reflexes.

Other axons from Deiters’s nucleus are supposed to cross and ascend in the opposite medial lemniscus to the ventro-lateral nuclei of the thalamus; still other fibers pass into the cerebellum with the inferior peduncle and are distributed to the cortex of the vermis and the roof nuclei of the cerebellum; according to Cajal they merely pass through the nucleus fastigii on their way to the cortex of the vermis and the hemisphere.

History

Eponym

Deiter's nucleus was named after German neuroanatomist Otto Friedrich Karl Deiters (1834–1863).

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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