Habenular trigone

Habenular trigone
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Latin	trigonum habenulae
NeuroNames	293
TA	A14.1.08.005
FMA	74868
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The habenular trigone is a small depressed triangular area above the superior colliculus and on the lateral aspect of the posterior part of the taenia thalami.

Underlying this area is the habenula.

Fibers enter it from the stalk of the pineal gland, and others, forming what is termed the habenular commissure, pass across the middle line to the corresponding ganglion of the opposite side.

Most of its fibers are, however, directed downward and form a bundle, the fasciculus retroflexus of Meynert (or habenulointerpeduncular tract), which passes medial to the red nucleus, and, after decussating with the corresponding fasciculus of the opposite side, ends in the interpeduncular nucleus.

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This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 812 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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