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🧠Best way to remember the direction of spinal cord tracts🧠

You’re studying neuro and you’re struggling to remember whether a spinal tract goes up or down.

Well, here’s a 💥tip💥 to help you remember every time. It’s all in the name.

🎯For instance, the spinothalamic tract goes from the spine, which is located in the trunk and neck to the thalamus, which is inside the brain. Therefore, this tract is an ascending tract.

🎯Try another one. The corticospinal tract runs from the cortex of the brain to the spinal cord. Thus this track is a descending track.

😀 This technique should work for all tracks except for the dorsal column tract.

❔ Why is this important? Well, ascending tracts carry sensory information and descending tracts motor information.

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