Brain: Olivocerebellar tract
Transverse section of medulla oblongata below the middle of the olive. (Cerebello-olivary fibers visible at center right.)
Latin	t. olivocerebellaris
NeuroNames	hier-801
NeuroLex ID	birnlex_1579

The olivocerebellar tract, also known as olivocerebellar fibers, are neural fibers which originate at the olivary nucleus and pass out through the hilum and decussate with those from the opposite olive in the raphé, then as internal arcuate fibers they pass partly through and partly around the opposite olive and enter the inferior peduncle to be distributed to the cerebellar hemisphere of the opposite side from which they arise.

They terminate directly on Purkinje cells as the climbing fiber input system.^[1]

  References

  Additional images

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  Deep dissection of brain-stem (lateral view)

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  Deep dissection of cortex and brain-stem

  External links

• Neuroanatomy at UW cere/text/p3/olivo.htm

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