Avian pallium

In the anatomy of animals, an avian pallium is the dorsal telencephalon of a bird's brain. The subpallium is the ventral telencephalon.

Related Topics:
Anatomy - Animal - Telencephalon - Bird's - Brain

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Pallium of avian species tend to be relatively large, comprising ~75% of the telencephalic volume. Birds have a unique pallial structure known as the hyperpallium, once called the hyperstriatum.

Related Topics:
Pallium - Avian - Hyperpallium

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A 2002 conference at Duke University established a standard nomenclature for describing the avian pallium as follows:

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• Pallium
• pyriform cortex
• olfactory bulb
• hippocampus
• corticoid area
• hyperpallium
• apicale
• intercalatum
• densocellulare
• mesopallium
• dorsale
• ventrale
• nidopallium
• field L2
• entopallium
• basorostralis
• arcopallium
• amygdaloid complex
• posterior amygdala
• nucleus taeniae
• Subpallium
• striatum
• lateral
• medial
• pallidum
• globus pallidus or dorsal pallidum
• ventral pallidum

For more information, see: http://www.avianbrain.org/new_terminology.html

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