Want to move your hand? It all starts in the motor cortex 🧠✋ #neurology #MotorPathways #meded

So let us say we want to move our hands. So distal muscle. So a neuron will arise from the motor cortex which control hand movements here. It will pass through the phalamus, pass through the uh sus cerebri of the midbrain and the pyramids of the medulla where it will then cross over and land on the lateral corticospinal tract before sinapsing with a second neuron on the vententral horn of the spinal cord. The first neuron coming down is therefore part of the lateral corticospinal pathway. The second neuron coming from the vententral horn of the spinal cord will then target the sceal muscle which has to be the distal muscle. So for example muscles of the hands. The second neuron is known as the lower motor neuron.