1. The diencephalon performs functions associated with hormones and homeostasis. 2. In the terminology of neuroanatomy, it forms the ventral part of the diencephalon . 3. The pineal body lies just above the diencephalon . 4. The second cranial nerve is not a true peripheral nerve but a tract of the diencephalon . 5. Xenopus tropicalis rax mutant frogs are eyeless where the future retinal tissue instead has diencephalon and telencephalon features. 6. It is not a separate system but a collection of structures from the telencephalon, diencephalon , and mesencephalon. 7. Lesions are usually symmetrical in the periventricular region, diencephalon , the midbrain, hypothalamus, and cerebellar vermis. 8. In the 1930s, he began mapping the parts of the diencephalon that control the internal organs using cats. 9. Even in the hagfish, however, there may be a " pineal equivalent " structure in the dorsal diencephalon . 10. Cortical dysfunction may have arisen from thiamine deficiency, alcohol neurotoxicity, and / or structural damage in the diencephalon .
