Strap yourselves in, this one's a bit of a monster. It's not always best to chop up anatomy into small chunks because it helps to link bits together, to make sense of it all. I'm going to talk about decussations within the nervous system, that is, nerve fibres crossing over from one side of the body to the other.

We'll talk about:
decussations and commissures
spinothalamic tracts, dorsal columns (sensory)
corticospinal tracts (motor)
upper motor neurones vs lower motor neurones
the weird things that can happen when only half of the spinal cord is injured


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