Occipitofrontal fasciculus

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.

Occipitofrontal fasciculus
Tractography showing occipitofrontal fasciculus
Details
Identifiers
Latinfasciculus occipitofrontalis inferior
NeuroNames1442
TA98A14.1.09.561
A14.1.09.562
TA25601, 5602
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

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]

References

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.


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