striatum

A region of the forebrain consisting of the caudate nucleus, putamen and fundus striati.[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the striatum is

A region of the forebrain consisting of the caudate nucleus, putamen and fundus striati.[GO]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the striatum is

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the striatum connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. part of basal forebrain, basal ganglion and corpus striatum, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the striatum. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as neostriatum, neuraxis striatum, striate nucleus, striatum, striatum of neuraxis and caudate putamen, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002435, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: basal forebrain, basal ganglion, corpus striatum and telencephalon.
• A kind of: gray matter of forebrain, gray matter of telencephalon, nuclear complex of neuraxis and regional part of brain.
• contains: caudate nucleus, dorsal striatum, lateral septal nucleus, putamen and ventral striatum.
• contributes to morphology of: collection of basal ganglia and ventral striatum.

Questions

Where is the striatum?

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the striatum connect to?

Part of: basal forebrain, basal ganglion, corpus striatum and telencephalon.

Is the striatum the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.