The projection of the retina in the lateral geniculate body
- 1 January 1934
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character
- Vol. 114 (788) , 291-313
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1934.0008
Abstract
The localization of the retina in the lateral geniculate body of monkeys was studied by reference to the cellular atrophy which occurs in this nucleus after localized retinal lesions, a method which gives more accurate results than the Marchi method previously employed on the same problem by other investigators. Atrophy in the geniculate body is always quite localized and sharply defined after retinal lesions. Crossed and uncrossed fibers of the optic tract terminate in different sets of laminae. The macular area of the geniculate body is more restricted than previous observations have suggested, and is represented by a median sector which is definitely limited to the caudal 2/3 of the nucleus. It involves all the cell laminae. Fibers of the nasal half of the macula undergo complete decussation in the chiasma, while those from the temporal half remain uncrossed. The whole width of the cell laminae in the rostral third of the nucleus is concerned with peripheral vision. The peripheral areas of the retina farther away from the disc are represented in the more anterior levels of the geniculate body.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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