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Which structure serves as the output nucleus in the limbic basal ganglia pathway?
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In the limbic basal ganglia pathway, which is responsible for processing information related to motivation and emotion, the structure that serves as the output nucleus is the ventral pallidum.1
This nucleus receives processed information from the limbic circuit and transmits it to the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus, which subsequently relays the information back to the relevant areas of the cortex.1