Information about the basal ganglia has accumulated at a prodigious pace over the past
decade, necessitating major revisions in our concepts of the structural and functional�…

Concepts of basal ganglia organization have changed markedly over the past decade, due
to significant advances in our understanding of the anatomy, physiology and pharmacology�…

Anatomical findings in primates and rodents have led to a description of several parallel
segregated basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits leading from a distinct frontocortical area�…

This paper reviews some of the recent findings on different aspects of the anatomical
organization of the basal ganglia. Attempts have been made to delineate the anatomical�…

Publisher Summary Basal ganglia contribute to a wide variety of behavioral functions,
including skeletomotor, oculomotor, cognitive, and limbic processes. This chapter focuses�…

Recent neuroanatomical studies undertaken with various powerful neural tracing methods
have radically changed our concept of the organization of the basal ganglia. This paper�…

Publisher Summary This chapter aims to incorporate the results of recent work on the
anatomy into a general outline of the fiber connections of the basal ganglia. Progress of two�…

Computational anatomical studies suggest that specific clusters of projection neurons in the
basal forebrain together with specific prefrontal and posterior cortical association regions�…

T he basal ganglia are undoubtedly among the most complex and least understood
structures in the mammalian forebrain and, as in the case of the cerebral cortex, to which�…

In this chapter, we briefly present some of our recent anatomical results on the macro-
organization of the circuits that link the basal ganglia with the skeletomotor areas in the�…