One of the four basal ganglia in each cerebral hemisphere that consists of a thin lamina of gray matter between the lentiform nucleus and the insula[BTO]. The claustrum, which is suspected to be present in all mammals, is a fairly thin (fraction of 1 mm to multiple mms) vertical curved sheet of subcortical gray matter oriented sagittally between the white matter tracts of the external capsule and extreme capsule. The claustrum is lateral to the putamen and medial to the insular cortex and is considered by some sources to be part of the basal ganglia. There are lateral and medial tracts connecting to many cortices and perhaps to the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the caudate nucleus (connections with subcortical centers are a matter of debate)[WP]. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0004292 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claustrum ]
Synonyms: claustrum dorsal claustrum dorsal portion of claustrum
Term information
- PBA:128012960
- NCIT:C32329
- BTO:0004292
- UMLS:C0008910 (ncithesaurus:Claustrum)
- neuronames:252 (BIRNLEX:1522)
- SCTID:279410004
- MBA:583
- FMA:67440
- BAMS:Cl
- DMBA:15984
- MA:0000888
- DHBA:10346
- HBA:4321
- EMAPA:35244
- BAMS:CL
- EV:0100183
- BM:Tel-Cl
- BAMS:CLA
- Wikipedia:Claustrum
- BIRNLEX:1522
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002887
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0006107
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_40674
Term relations
- basal ganglion
- cerebral hemisphere gray matter
- part of some pallium
- part of some cerebral hemisphere
- part of some basal nuclear complex