Talk:Optic radiation

Merge
It seems probable that someone created this article without realizing that there was another article on the same topic but with the plural rendering of the term in the title. Suggest merging contents to the most commonly accepted usage (whichever that may be). --Lacatosias 07:28, 17 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Agree with merge. As for the titling issue...I think the plural is used most commonly (which is probably why that article is more substantial), but it seems like the Wikipedia style preference is for singular even in that case, so I could be convinced either way. -- JVinocur 23:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Agree with merge, preferrably to to Optic radiation (i.e. singular). Optic radiation refers to a single tract or a single collection of axons. Optic radiations refers to multiple tracts or multiple collections of axons. (Although many refer to each axon as a radiation and refer to a grouping of them as radiations, I think this is technically incorrect.) -AED 23:27, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Per the above, I merged Optic radiations to Optic radiation. -AED 06:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

"Baum's loop"
I can't find any evidence that the term "Baum's loop" has ever been used in scholarly literature (0 results on Google Scholar, versus 317 for "Meyer's loop"). Can someone please clarify this? 131.215.220.185 (talk) 18:36, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

I am unable to find any use of the term in Pubmed prior to 2000, which is odd if this was a classical anatomical name for the structure. Without a reference, I suggest the term is removed. --Frank Gaillard (talk) 08:31, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

I have received the following email from a source I cannot name "All I can tell you is that a student at Brown University, between the years 2003-2008, changed the Wikipedia information on the posterior bundle and added their name (Baum's Loop) as a joke. I have this information directly from the source.". We’ve been doing some looking around and it seems that this fits with the timeline of therm "Baum’s loop” entering the literature. Looking at Wikipedia’s Optic Radiation article, “Baum’s loop" was present on a 2004 article version but that is the oldest available so exact date of insertion is unclear. The first Google Scholar mention is from a 2011 article. A direct search of PubMed does not reveal any hits but via Google there is an indexed article from 2014. Looks like an amazing propagation of a joke! I have therefore removed the entry from the article. --Frank Gaillard (talk) 21:58, 20 May 2020 (UTC)


 * It is 2023, and I am here to pay respects to Dr. Baum, the absolute gigachad madman. 2603:8081:6D05:3341:D8D8:4576:6E3B:BB34 (talk) 02:29, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Hemianopia/Quadrantanopia
This article is incorrect. A lesion to the left or right optic radiation causes hemianopia (loss of vision in the contralateral visual field), not quandrantanopia as is currently stated.

This should be fixed immediately.

Wandell (talk) 03:54, 9 December 2015 (UTC)