Talk:Anterior corticospinal tract

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[edit] Move

My three neuroanatomy texts/atlases (Haines, Netter, Kiernan) all use anterior/ventral corticospinal tract instead of direct pyramidal tract, and Google returns only 93 results for "direct pyramidal tract". The anterior cerebrospinal fasciculus appears to be a remnant from Gray's; it too fares poorly on Google. I propose a move to ventral corticospinal tract. Likewise, our article on the crossed tract should reside at lateral corticospinal tract. Thoughts before I make the switch? --David Iberri (talk) 23:42, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm the original author, and I have no objection to a move. However, the Terminologia anatomica (per Dorlands) is "t. corticospinalis anterior", so "anterior corticospinal tract" might be better (Google yields a near tie, with 309 for "anterior corticospinal tract" and 308 for "ventral corticospinal tract"). --Arcadian 00:59, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Good point -- I'm moving it to anterior corticospinal tract now. --David Iberri (talk) 14:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)