Ventral posterior nucleus of thalamus

Part of thalamus receiving primary somatic sensory information via the medial lemniscal pathway that projects to the primary somatosensory cortex (adapted from Paxinos, The Rat Nervous System, 2nd Ed, Academic Press, 1995).

Aliases

Nuclei ventrales posteriores
Nucleus ventrales posteriores
Nucleus ventralis posterior
Ventral posterior
Ventral posterior complex of the thalamus
Ventral posterior nucleus
Ventral posterior thalamic nucleus
Ventrobasal complex
Ventrobasal nucleus
Ventroposterior inferior nucleus
Ventroposterior nucleus
Ventroposterior nucleus of thalamus
VP
VPN