Unusual neural tract between injured fornix and pedunculopontine nucleus in a patient with traumatic brain injury

摘要

It has been known that four cholinergic nuclei are located in the septal region and basal forebrain(Ch 1:medial septal nucleus,Ch 2:vertical nucleus of the diagonal band,Ch 3:horizontal limb of the diagonal band and Ch 4:nucleus basalis of Meynert)and two are located in the brainstem(Ch 5:pedunculopontine nucleus and Ch 6:laterodorsal tegmental nucleus)(Selden et al.,1998;Lucas-Meunier et al.,2003;Mesulam,2004;