Clinical Significance
If the superior colliculus is damaged, it is called decerebration and causes decerebrate rigidity.
The reticulospinal tracts also provide a pathway by which the hypothalamus can control sympathetic thoracolumbar outflow and parasympathetic sacral outflow.
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