STUDIES ON THE CENTRAL VISUAL SYSTEM
- 1 September 1926
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 16 (3) , 285-300
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1926.02200270024002
Abstract
During the early years of the investigation of the central visual system, much attention was paid to the anatomy and experimental pathology of the visual centers in animals. Von Monakow and his school especially made many studies of the anatomy of the external corpus geniculatum, the tracts of the occipital lobe and the visual cortex. A review of the literature on the experimental aspects of the problem is given by Minkowski,1and on the more purely anatomic aspects by Redlich.2Interest then shifted more to the study of human pathologic material, and to the finer histology of the cortex. As a result of all these investigations, it is now generally accepted (even by former adherents of the "decentralist" school) that the second neuron of the visual system arises in the corpus geniculatum externum, and ends in the striate cortex (field 17 of Brodmann).3 Renewed interest in theKeywords
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