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Descending tracts
Motor commands from higher centers → nuclei of cranial or spinal nerves
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Ascending tracts
sensory information from brainstem nuclei → to the thalamus
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Transverse pontine fibers
connect cerebral hemispheres
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apneustic and pneumotaxic centers
adjust activities of respiratory rhythmic center in medulla
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reticular formation
processing of incoming sensations and motor commands (autonomic)
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nuclei of cranial nerves
relay somatic motor and sensory commands
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other nuclei/relay centers
relay sensory and motor info to cerebellum
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