The consensual light reflex occurs because both the optic and tectotegmental ... Light-near dissociation with dorsal midbrain and pretectal nuclei damage is due to this pathway’s bypassing ...

These cells project to many areas of the brain, including the olivary pretectal nuclei and ... These areas of the brain, in turn, control the pupillary light reflex (PLR), the body ...

For many years, it was thought that rods and cones were the only light-detecting cells in the mammalian retina, but about 20 years ago a third photoreceptor was identified, the intrinsically ...