NEUROPATHOLOGY

abstracts MReuroloows MReuroloow NEUROANATOMY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY [145] The localization of the macular fibres in the optic radiations (Zur Lokalisation der Maculafaserung innerhalb der Sehstrahlung).A. JUBA. Zeits.f. d. g. Neurol. u. Psychiat., 1935, 154, 123. RETROGRADE degeneration, almost exclusively involving the macular region in the geniculate body, resulted from unilateral softening in the area striata affecting mainly the polar region. The fibres situated in the ventral part of the vertical peduncle in the optic radiation were degenerated. Thus, these fibres have to be considered as the fibres of central vision in the optic radiation. The case described favours a theory that the macular fibres are situated in the middle of the optic radiation and not in its dorsal part as Pfeifer had maintained. M.