1. Damage to the reticular formation can produce a permanent state of coma. 2. The functions of the reticular formation are modulatory and premotor. 3. This is how the reticular formation mediates attention and wakefulness. 4. It terminates in the brainstem at the medullary-pontine reticular formation . 5. Modern scientists usually refer to the individual nuclei that comprise the reticular formation . 6. The term " reticular formation " is seldom used anymore except to speak in generalities. 7. Many collaterals from the reticular formation and from the pyramids enter the inferior olivary nucleus. 8. Existing on the sides of the medial reticular formation is its medulla and caudal pons. 9. The activation to these neurons are mostly from the descending fibers of the facilitatory reticular formation . 10. This stimulated area of the brain became known as the reticular activating system or reticular formation .