Talk:Spinocerebellar tract

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don't people with aspergers Syndrome often have poor functioning Spinocerebellar tracts?

Concerns about wikitable

The wikitable on spinocerebellar tract types seems to contradict this article from a website which contains a lot of great information about brainstem pathways.

If you study closely this image from the article, you will see that in both limbs (lower arms, upper/lower legs) muscle fibers seem to combine with golgi tendons to enter the dorsal spinocerebellar tract, whereas the upper arms (also with combined spindle/golgi fibers) enter the [spino]cuneocerebellar tract. This seems to contradict 2 pieces of information given in the wikitable:

1. That the dorsal spinocerebellar tract carries information from the lower limbs (i.e., the legs) only. But the image I linked shows more than that: the lower arms also send fibers to the same tract. I understand the wikitable may be just trying to paint a general picture that's easier to remember (especially for readers unfamiliar with the subject), rather than be exactly accurate. In that case, perhaps we can leave the table alone, but move on to the next contradiction, which seems more serious...

2. That the dorsal spinocerebellar and cuneocerebellar tracts only carry information from muscle spindles, not golgi tendon organs. The image appears to show both spindle and golgi information going though both tracts.

Does anyone know if there is indeed an error in the wikitable? Hopefully my source here isn't outdated or anything.

184.96.112.194 (talk) 06:44, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with Dorsal spinocerebellar tract

There is no need to have four small, unloved and untended articles on parts of the spinocerebellar tract when they would be better placed as part of a larger article.

This article would provide more contextual information, allow the reader to consider all four tracts, and reduce needless duplication of information. Tom (LT) (talk) 08:06, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]