Question: What Is the Occipital Pole?
Answer: The most posterior part of the brain's occipital lobe, where visual information at the center of the visual field is processed. Strokes affecting the occipital pole cause a visual deficit called a central visual defect.
Source:
Allan Ropper and Robert Brown, Adam's and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 8th Edition McGraw-Hill Companies Inc, United States of America, 2005, pp 417-430.
