Ascending afferents from both the medial lemniscal pathway and the spinothalamic pathway of the spinal cord...

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Ascending afferents from both the medial lemniscal pathway andthe spinothalamic pathway of the spinal cord synapse in the ventralposterior nucleus of the thalamus (VPN). The VPN has two parts: themedial VPN and the lateral VPN.

(a) What somatosensory afferents synapse in each of these twoareas and

(b) to which 3 areas do neurons from the VPN project?

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a The ventropostero nucleus has 2 parts medial vpn and lateral vpn The ventro postero lateral nucleus recieves input from medial lemniscus of dorsal column and    See Answer
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