Putamen
Together with the caudate nucleus it is called the striatum. It is the sensory part of the corpus striatum and receives afferent fibers from the basal ganglia and the cortex. It forms the lentiform nucleus with the putamen.
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Coronal section through fixed
brain at level of upper brain stem: 1 cortex 2 caudate
nucleus 3 cerebral 'medulla' 4 corpus callosum 5 cingulate gyrus 6
fornix column 7 thalamus 8 internal capsule 9 lentiform nucleus 10
extreme capsule 11 claustrum 12 external capsule 13 insular cortex
14 3rd ventricle
