The striatum (also see corpus striatum)'s a subcortical (for example inside, rather than on the outside) part of the telencephalon/cerebrum. It's the major input station of the basal ganglia system. Anatomically, the striatum's the caudate nucleus and the putamen. History In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the term "corpus striatum" was used to designate many distinct, deep, infracortical elements of the hemisphere (for example Vieussens, 1685). The Vogts (Cécile and Oskar, 1941)… (More on Striatum)