"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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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Occipital Lobe" by people in Profiles.
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Survival of retinal ganglion cells after damage to the occipital lobe in humans is activity dependent. Proc Biol Sci. 2019 02 27; 286(1897):20182733.
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Structural plasticity of the ventral stream and aphasia recovery. Ann Neurol. 2017 Jul; 82(1):147-151.
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Clinical Reasoning: A 59-year-old man with multifocal strokes, then subsequent painful eye movements and diplopia. Neurology. 2016 11 08; 87(19):e231-e236.
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Damage to left anterior temporal cortex predicts impairment of complex syntactic processing: a lesion-symptom mapping study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2013 Oct; 34(10):2715-23.
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Anomalous sylvian fissure morphology in Williams syndrome. Neuroimage. 2006 Oct 15; 33(1):39-45.
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Anterior cingulate neurochemistry in social anxiety disorder: 1H-MRS at 4 Tesla. Neuroreport. 2005 Feb 08; 16(2):183-6.
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Cortical regions associated with different aspects of object recognition performance. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2004 Sep; 4(3):364-78.
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An experiment of nature: brain anatomy parallels cognition and behavior in Williams syndrome. J Neurosci. 2004 May 26; 24(21):5009-15.
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Anandamide enhances extracellular levels of adenosine and induces sleep: an in vivo microdialysis study. Sleep. 2003 Dec 15; 26(8):943-7.
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Diffusion tensor imaging in fixed brain tissue at 7.0 T. NMR Biomed. 2003 Apr; 16(2):77-81.