"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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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 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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Shared Representational Formats for Information Maintained in Working Memory and Information Retrieved from Long-Term Memory. Cereb Cortex. 2022 02 19; 32(5):1077-1092.
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Glioblastoma Invoking "Killer" Rabbits of the Middle Ages. World Neurosurg. 2016 Aug; 92:140-141.
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Peripheral sounds rapidly activate visual cortex: evidence from electrocorticography. J Neurophysiol. 2015 Nov; 114(5):3023-8.
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Alterations in brain activation during cognitive empathy are related to social functioning in schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull. 2015 Jan; 41(1):211-22.
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A possible case of transient Anton's Syndrome status post bilateral occipital lobe infarct. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2013; 25(3):E49.
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Activation in the neural network responsible for categorization and recognition reflects parameter changes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jan 03; 109(1):333-8.
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Nail-gun narcolepsy. Lancet. 2009 Jul 18; 374(9685):238.
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An evolutionarily conserved sexual signature in the primate brain. PLoS Genet. 2008 Jun 20; 4(6):e1000100.
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Surviving a mine explosion. J Am Coll Surg. 2008 Aug; 207(2):276-83.
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Anomalous sylvian fissure morphology in Williams syndrome. Neuroimage. 2006 Oct 15; 33(1):39-45.