Describe the pathway of voluntary motor control from its point of initiation in the cerebral cortex to the initiation of movement by upper motor neurons

What will be an ideal response?


The cerebral cortex and substantia nigra stimulate the caudate nucleus and putamen. The caudate nucleus and putamen inhibit the globus pallidus, which can no longer inhibit the thalamus. The thalamus stimulates upper motor neurons and movement is initiated.

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