Occipitofrontal fasciculus

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| Name = Occipitofrontal fasciculus

| Latin = fasciculus occipitofrontalis inferior

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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.{{Cite journal|last1=Meola|first1=Antonio|last2=Comert|first2=Ayhan|last3=Yeh|first3=Fang-Cheng|last4=Stefaneanu|first4=Lucia|last5=Fernandez-Miranda|first5=Juan C.|date=December 2015|title=The controversial existence of the human superior fronto-occipital fasciculus: Connectome-based tractographic study with microdissection validation|journal=Human Brain Mapping|volume=36|issue=12|pages=4964–4971|doi=10.1002/hbm.22990|issn=1065-9471|pmc=4715628|pmid=26435158}}{{cite journal |vauthors=Liu X, Kinoshita M, Shinohara H, Hori O, Ozaki N, Nakada M |title=Does the superior fronto-occipital fascicle exist in the human brain? Fiber dissection and brain functional mapping in 90 patients with gliomas |journal=NeuroImage Clin |volume=25 |date=2020 |page=102192 |pmid=32014826 |doi=10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102192|pmc=6997620 }}