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