| 1. | The diencephalon performs functions associated with hormones and homeostasis.
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| 2. | In the terminology of neuroanatomy, it forms the ventral part of the diencephalon.
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| 3. | The pineal body lies just above the diencephalon.
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| 4. | The second cranial nerve is not a true peripheral nerve but a tract of the diencephalon.
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| 5. | Xenopus tropicalis rax mutant frogs are eyeless where the future retinal tissue instead has diencephalon and telencephalon features.
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| 6. | It is not a separate system but a collection of structures from the telencephalon, diencephalon, and mesencephalon.
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| 7. | Lesions are usually symmetrical in the periventricular region, diencephalon, the midbrain, hypothalamus, and cerebellar vermis.
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| 8. | In the 1930s, he began mapping the parts of the diencephalon that control the internal organs using cats.
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| 9. | Even in the hagfish, however, there may be a " pineal equivalent " structure in the dorsal diencephalon.
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| 10. | Cortical dysfunction may have arisen from thiamine deficiency, alcohol neurotoxicity, and / or structural damage in the diencephalon.
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