1. Pathways of Spinal Cord and Brain

2. Naming of neural pathways
A neural pathway is a neural tract connecting one part of the nervous system with another, usually consisting of bundles of elongated, myelin insultated neurons, known collectively as white matter. Neural pathways serve to connect relatively distant areas of the brain or nervous system, compared to the local communication of grey matter.
Naming of neural pathways
The first named pathways were evident even in a poorly-preserved gross brain, and were named by the great anatomists of the Renaissance using cadaver material. Examples of these include the great commissures of the brain such as the corpus callosum (Latin, "huge body"), anterior commissure or posterior commissure.

3. Hindbrain Medulla Pons Cerebellum Pons Medulla Cerebellum

5. Hindbrain Medulla Pons Cerebellum Pons Medulla Cerebellum

6. The Spinothalamic Tract
is a sensory pathway originates in the spinal cord that transmits information about pain, temperature, itch and crude touch to the thalamus.

7. M L PN
S G E

8. G S
S G E

9. The Lateral spinothalamic tract transmits pain and temperature.
The Anterior spinothalamic tract transmits touch.

11. S G P

12. N R P
S G
D N
Spino
cerebellar
tracts
anterior
posterior

13. Hindbrain Medulla Pons Cerebellum Pons Medulla Cerebellum

14. N R
N R P
S G
D N

15. The Rubrospinal tract arises from the large cells of the red nucleus
  The Rubrospinal tract arises from the large cells of the red nucleus. The fibers cross the raphé of the mid-brain in the decussation of Forel and descend in the formatio reticularis of the pons and medulla dorsal to the medial lemniscus and as they pass into the spinal cord come to lie in a position ventral to the crossed pyramidal tracts in the lateral funiculus.

16. R T c v
C(p)
N p th
I-m
I-lat

17. The corticospinal tract mostly contains motor axons
The corticospinal tract mostly contains motor axons. It actually consists of two separate tracts in the spinal cord: the lateral corticospinal tract and the medial corticospinal tract.
An understanding of these tracts leads to an understanding of why for the most part, one side of the body is controlled by the opposite side of the brain.

19. R T c v
C(p)
N p th
I-m
I-lat

20. Second neurons of cortico-nuclear tract pass through cranial nerves

21. III IV
Cortico-
Nuclear tract V
VII VI IX X
XII XI

22. Cortico-
Ponto-
Cerebellar
tract
PONS