Avian pallium

In the anatomy of animals, an avian pallium is the dorsal telencephalon of a bird's brain. The subpallium is the ventral telencephalon.

Pallium of avian species tend to be relatively large, comprising ~75% of the telencephalic volume. Birds have a unique pallial structure known as the hyperpallium, once called the hyperstriatum.

A 2002 conference at Duke University established a standard nomenclature for describing the avian pallium as follows:


 * Pallium
 * pyriform cortex
 * olfactory bulb
 * hippocampus
 * corticoid area
 * hyperpallium
 * apicale
 * intercalatum
 * densocellulare
 * mesopallium
 * dorsale
 * ventrale
 * nidopallium
 * field L2
 * entopallium
 * basorostralis
 * arcopallium
 * amygdaloid complex
 * posterior amygdala
 * nucleus taeniae
 * Subpallium
 * striatum
 * lateral
 * medial
 * pallidum
 * globus pallidus or dorsal pallidum
 * ventral pallidum

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 * New terminology