reticular formation
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Damage to the reticular formation can produce a permanent state of coma.

This is how the reticular formation mediates attention and wakefulness.

Several nuclei, tracts and the reticular formation are contained here.

It is a part of the reticular formation.

Injury to the reticular formation can result in irreversible coma.

Bilateral damage to the reticular formation of the midbrain may lead to coma or death.

The term "reticular formation" is seldom used anymore except to speak in generalities.

Modern scientists usually refer to the individual nuclei that comprise the reticular formation.

"Do you know what the central reticular formation is?"

First relates to the reticular formation (in the brain).