Scientists rediscover long-lost region of the brain

Scientists rediscover long-lost region of the brain
Stanford, Calif. (UPI) Nov 20, 2014 - A region of the brain known as the vertical occipital fasciculus, or VOF, was first identified in the latter half of the 19th century, but not long after its discovery, it went missing. It didn't literally disappear - only literarily. For more than 100 years, the VOF was absent from scientific literature, and modern scientists failed to recognize the snake-like neural pathway as a dist ... more

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