Talk:Neostriatum

The term neostriatum must not be used anymore. Comparisons with non-mammalian genera have been desastrous. The caudoputamen, caudatoputamen or others are anatomical negligences. The belonging to the striatum is based on a particular neuronal, and clearly differentiating, constitution (see primate basal ganglia system). The pallidum or other striatal targets are not striatal. The term striatum, which was itself a simplification and a clarification by the Vogt (1941) of the "corpus striatum" (that contained everything) suffices. The striatum is a single and continuous mass with a toric geometry. The putamen, caudate and fundus are simple topographical parts that must not be given too much importance since the functional partition, given by cortical afferences, does not exactly fit with it --83.199.60.70 15:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)-user:gerard.percheron