Stepping out of a mall and into the sunshine has caused a man's pupils to constrict. Place the following anatomical components of the man's pupillary reflex in the ascending chronological order that they responded to the light. Use all the options
A) Oculomotor nuclei
B) Retinal ganglionic cells
C) Preganglionic neurons
D) Pretectal nuclei
Ans:
B, D, C, A
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Pretectal areas on each side of the brain are connected, explaining the binocular aspect of the light reflex. The afferent stimuli for pupillary constriction arise in the ganglionic cells of the retina and are transmitted to the pretectal nuclei at the junction of the thalamus and the midbrain and from there to preganglionic neurons in the oculomotor (CN III) nuclei via the pretectooculomotor tract.
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