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Corticospinal tract

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Corticospinal tract
A tract of nerve cells that carries motor commands from the brain to the spinal cord.
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The sensory cortex contributes to the corticospinal tract (28,29) and contributes to the excitability of the motor cortex.
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The most plausible hypothesis for the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the development of GS involves the ipsilateral corticospinal tract of the irradiated limb and the relative effectiveness of the transcallosal connectivity from the opposite (affected) hemisphere that inhibits the ipsilateral fast-conducting corticospinal tract of the working (intact) hemisphere.
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