Occipitofrontal fasciculus

Occipitofrontal fasciculus
Occipitofrontal fasciculus
	Tractography showing occipitofrontal fasciculus
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Identifiers
Latin	fasciculus occipitofrontalis inferior
NeuroNames	1442
TA98	A14.1.09.561 ; A14.1.09.562
TA2	5601, 5602
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [ edit on Wikidata]

Last updated October 05, 2025

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

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

↑ 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.
↑ 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.

External links

Türe U, Yaşargil MG, Pait TG (June 1997). "Is there a superior occipitofrontal fasciculus? A microsurgical anatomic study". Neurosurgery. 40 (6): 1226–32. doi:10.1097/00006123-199706000-00022. PMID 9179896.
Kier EL, Staib LH, Davis LM, Bronen RA (May 2004). "MR imaging of the temporal stem: anatomic dissection tractography of the uncinate fasciculus, inferior occipitofrontal fasciculus, and Meyer's loop of the optic radiation". AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 25 (5): 677–91. PMC 7974480 . PMID 15140705.

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[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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