On Thu, 17 May 2001 06:31:13 GMT, George Hammond
<ghammond at mediaone.net> wrote:
>Kalman Rubinson wrote:
>> Sorry but the proportion of crossing fibers in the fornix is very
>> small and characterising it as an "X" (or chiasm) is improper.
>> The fornix is basically a direct fiber pathway stretched and bent by
>> external forces, a phenomenon easily visualize by comparing fornices
>> across verterate species.
>>[Hammond]
>Sorry to have to point out your error. The decussation in the Fornix is
>documented and described in my peer reviewed published paper
It's a question of the proportion and significance of those crossing
fibers. Compared to the optic chiasm and the pyramidal decussation,
they are few.
Kal