The corticospinal tract is a white matter motor pathway starting at the cerebral cortex that terminates on lower motor neurons and interneurons in the spinal cord, controlling movements of the limbs and trunk. The corticospinal tract is one of the pyramidal tracts, the other being the corticobulbar tract. Corticospinal tract: The nervous system tract that conducts impulses from the
brain to the spinal cord. It contains mostly motor axons and is made up of two separate tracts in the spinal cord: the lateral corticospinal tract and the anterior corticospinal tract
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