Left thalamogeniculate artery

Looks like

Small branches of the posterior cerebral artery entering the back and side of the thalamus.

What it does

Supply the outer thalamus, the main relay for feeling from the opposite body half.

Keeping it well

Their stroke causes numbness of the opposite side, sometimes later burning pain (thalamic pain syndrome).

Related conditions

• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Hypothermia & frostbite
• Kawasaki disease
• Metabolic syndrome
• Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
• Peripheral artery disease
• Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
• Pre-eclampsia
• Raynaud's phenomenon
• Sepsis
• Shock (circulatory failure)
• Vasculitis (GCA & others)