What is the afferent pathway for the pupillary light reflex?
Retinal ganglion cells concerned with the light reflex travel with the optic nerve and tract and then break away to project down to the midbrain pretectal nucleus.
From the pretectal nucleus, fibers project bilaterally, decussating via the posterior commissure to each Edinger–Westphal nucleus.
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