optic radiation

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optic radiation - a nerve pathway from the lateral geniculate body to the visual cortex

radiatio optica

nerve pathway, nerve tract, pathway, tract - a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

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In the normal healthy human brain, visual information is relayed from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) to the primary visual cortex via the optic radiations (for review, see Metzger et al.

Thalamocortical Connectivity and Microstructural Changes in Congenital and Late Blindness

- 5% supratentorially (typically in the optic radiations).

Cerebellar hemangioblastoma is it always with Von Hippel Lindau syndrome? A rare case of literature

Optic pathway gliomas can involve any portion of the visual pathway, including the hypothalamus, optic disc, nerve, chiasm, geniculate nucleus, and optic radiations. Categorized as juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas, they account for 4-6% of all brain tumors in children, and the median age of diagnosis is 5-9 years [5, 53, 54].

A clinical update and radiologic review of pediatric orbital and ocular tumors

Hemianopia due to the lesion in anterior optic tract is characteristically non congruous, while that due to pathology in posterior optic radiations and occipital cortex are highly congruous1.

HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA DUE TO OCCIPITAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION

To quote Elisa Fazzi and her colleagues from Italy (2009): Cerebral visual impairment (CVI), a neurological disorder caused by damage to or malfunctioning of the retrogeniculate visual pathways (optic radiations, occipital cortex, visual associative areas) in the absence of major ocular disease, (1) has been extensively studied in recent years.

Terminology for brain injury-related vision loss: the debate continues

For example, unilateral damage to VI, the optic tract (the section of the pathway that relays information from the optic chiasm to the LGN), or the LGN itself can lead to contralateral homonymous hemianopia (see Figure 2b), (9) while unilateral damage to Meyer's loop of the optic radiations often results in homonymous quadrantanopia (see Figure 2c).