Supraoptic Commissures, Dorsal

Hierarchy level in atlas is 3: 2 superstructures include it.

abbreviation: supd

Abbreviation

supd

Species

Rat

Description of part

According to Gurdjian 1927, Tsang 1940, Nauta and Haymaker 1969. It is probably more accurate on embryological and connectional grounds to refer to them as postoptic decussations.

Part type

fiber tract

Nomenclature

Swanson-1998

Endorsement

The approach used by the collator Mihail Bota is endorsed by the author of the nomenclature.

Collator argument

The position of this brain part in hierarchy was collated from the associated reference

Reference

Author: Swanson LW
Title of Book: Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain
Year: 1998
Pages: 196-213
Edition: second
Publisher: Elsevier