Kindergarten, What Animals Need 2005 Colorado Summer Writing Institute 22 Appendix K Dear Parents, In one week, the Kindergarten will start a unit on animals and their needs. We will be studying animal safety, what animals need to survive, baby animals, and pet care.
The putamen is a round structure located at the base of the forebrain (telencephalon). The putamen and caudate nucleus together form the dorsal striatum. It is also one of the structures in the basal ganglia. Through various pathways, it is mainly connected to the substantia nigra and globus pallidus. The main function of the putamen is to regulate movements and influence various types of learning.
It is now known that the basal ganglia do not originate a separate motor pathway. Instead, they influence and modulate the activity of motor cortex and the descending motor pathways in ways that cause distinct symptoms when different basal ganglia structures are damaged.asal ganglia dysfunction causes a set of symptoms that are quite different from damage to descending motor pathways, and thus the basal ganglia were at one time considered to form an âextrapyramidal motor systemâ that was distinct from the pyramidal tract pathways.