motor tract

This allows direct monitoring of motor tracts in the spinal cord.

The vestibulospinal tract is one of these four motor tracts developed from these progenitor cells.

Extrapyramidal tracts are those motor tracts that do not traverse the medullary pyramids.

The midbrain nuclei include four motor tracts that send upper motor neuronal axons down the spinal cord to lower motor neurons.

The cerebral crus is the anterior portion of the cerebral peduncle which contains the motor tracts, the plural of which is cerebral crura.

The reticulospinal tract (or anterior reticulospinal tract) is an extrapyramidal motor tract which descends from the reticular formation in two tracts to act on the motor neurons supplying the trunk and proximal limb muscles.

Broadbent law: Medical law that states "lesions of the upper segment of the motor tract cause less marked paralysis of muscles that habitually produce bilateral movements than of those that commonly act independently of the opposite side".

Hyporeflexia is generally associated with a lower motor neuron deficit (at the alpha motor neurons from the spinal cord to muscle), whereas hyperreflexia is often attributed to upper motor neuron lesions (along the long motor tracts from the brain).

Since the ventral and dorsal spinal cord have separate blood supply with very limited collateral flow, an anterior cord syndrome (paralysis or paresis with some preserved sensory function) is a possible surgical sequela, so it is important to have monitoring specific to the motor tracts as well as dorsal column monitoring.