"Occipital Lobe" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Posterior portion of the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES responsible for processing visual sensory information. It is located posterior to the parieto-occipital sulcus and extends to the preoccipital notch.
| Descriptor ID |
D009778
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.571
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| Concept/Terms |
Occipital Lobe- Occipital Lobe
- Lobe, Occipital
- Lobes, Occipital
- Occipital Lobes
- Occipital Region
- Occipital Regions
- Region, Occipital
- Regions, Occipital
Calcarine Sulcus- Calcarine Sulcus
- Sulcus, Calcarine
- Sulcus Calcarinus
- Calcarinus, Sulcus
- Calcarine Fissure
- Calcarine Fissures
- Fissure, Calcarine
- Fissures, Calcarine
Cuneus- Cuneus
- Occipital Cortex
- Cortex, Occipital
- Cortices, Occipital
- Occipital Cortices
- Cuneus Cortex
- Cortex, Cuneus
- Cortices, Cuneus
- Cuneus Cortices
Lingual Gyrus- Lingual Gyrus
- Gyrus, Lingual
- Medial Occipitotemporal Gyrus
- Gyrus, Medial Occipitotemporal
- Occipitotemporal Gyrus, Medial
- Gyrus Lingualis
- Gyrus Linguali
- Linguali, Gyrus
- Lingualis, Gyrus
Cuneate Lobule- Cuneate Lobule
- Cuneate Lobules
- Lobule, Cuneate
- Lobules, Cuneate
- Cuneus Gyrus
- Gyrus, Cuneus
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Occipital Lobe" by people in Profiles.
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Puri AS, K?hn AL, Hou SY, Wakhloo AK. Use of intermediate guide catheters as an adjunct in extracranial embolization to avoid onyx reflux into the anastomotic vasculature. A technical note. Interv Neuroradiol. 2014 Jul-Aug; 20(4):424-7.
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Guo X, Li J, Wei Q, Fan X, Kennedy DN, Shen Y, Chen H, Zhao J. Duration of untreated psychosis is associated with temporal and occipitotemporal gray matter volume decrease in treatment na?ve schizophrenia. PLoS One. 2013; 8(12):e83679.
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Afra P, Anderson J, Funke M, Johnson M, Matsuo F, Constantino T, Warner J. Neurophysiological investigation of idiopathic acquired auditory-visual synesthesia. Neurocase. 2012; 18(4):323-9.
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Kuchel GA, Moscufo N, Guttmann CR, Zeevi N, Wakefield D, Schmidt J, Dubeau CE, Wolfson L. Localization of brain white matter hyperintensities and urinary incontinence in community-dwelling older adults. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2009 Aug; 64(8):902-9.
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Braga LW, Souza LN, Najjar YJ, Dellatolas G. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and neuropsychological sequelae in children after severe traumatic brain injury: the role of cerebellar lesion. J Child Neurol. 2007 Sep; 22(9):1084-9.
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Makris N, Papadimitriou GM, Sorg S, Kennedy DN, Caviness VS, Pandya DN. The occipitofrontal fascicle in humans: a quantitative, in vivo, DT-MRI study. Neuroimage. 2007 Oct 01; 37(4):1100-11.
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Amedi A, Stern WM, Camprodon JA, Bermpohl F, Merabet L, Rotman S, Hemond C, Meijer P, Pascual-Leone A. Shape conveyed by visual-to-auditory sensory substitution activates the lateral occipital complex. Nat Neurosci. 2007 Jun; 10(6):687-9.
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Moore CM, Frazier JA, Glod CA, Breeze JL, Dieterich M, Finn CT, Frederick Bd, Renshaw PF. Glutamine and glutamate levels in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder: a 4.0-T proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of the anterior cingulate cortex. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2007 Apr; 46(4):524-34.
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Gaab N, Schulze K, Ozdemir E, Schlaug G. Neural correlates of absolute pitch differ between blind and sighted musicians. Neuroreport. 2006 Dec 18; 17(18):1853-7.
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Moore CM, Wardrop M, deB Frederick B, Renshaw PF. Topiramate raises anterior cingulate cortex glutamine levels in healthy men; a 4.0 T magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2006 Oct; 188(2):236-43.