Occipitofrontal fasciculus
Tractography showing occipitofrontal fasciculus
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Identifiers
Latinfasciculus occipitofrontalis inferior
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TA98A14.1.09.561
A14.1.09.562
TA25601, 5602
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The occipitofrontal fasciculus, also known as the fronto-occipital fasciculus, passes backward from the frontal lobe, along the lateral border of the caudate nucleus, and on the medial aspect of the corona radiata; its fibers radiate in a fan-like manner and pass into the occipital and temporal lobes lateral to the posterior and inferior cornua.

Some sources distinguish between an inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) and a superior fronto-occipital fasciculus (SFOF), however the latter is no longer believed to exist in the human brain.[1][2]

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 844 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  1. Meola, Antonio; Comert, Ayhan; Yeh, Fang-Cheng; Stefaneanu, Lucia; Fernandez-Miranda, Juan C. (December 2015). "The controversial existence of the human superior fronto-occipital fasciculus: Connectome-based tractographic study with microdissection validation". Human Brain Mapping. 36 (12): 4964–4971. doi:10.1002/hbm.22990. ISSN 1065-9471. PMC 4715628. PMID 26435158.
  2. Liu X, Kinoshita M, Shinohara H, Hori O, Ozaki N, Nakada M (2020). "Does the superior fronto-occipital fascicle exist in the human brain? Fiber dissection and brain functional mapping in 90 patients with gliomas". NeuroImage Clin. 25: 102192. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102192. PMC 6997620. PMID 32014826.



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