Functions
1. Integrates information from the motor systems to coordinate automatic movements of locomotion and posture.
2. Facilitates and inhibits voluntary movement, influences muscle tone.
3. Mediates autonomic functions
4. Modulates pain impulses
5. Influences blood flow to lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus
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