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Visual pathway• Retina → Optic nerve →Optic chiasma
↓ Optic tract
↓ Lateral geniculate body
↓ geniculostriate tract
↓Optic radiationto visual sensory area
17,18&19
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The retina• Contains photoreceptors i.e.
Rods & cones• Cones- around 7millions in
retina. Respond best in bright light. Responsible for sharp vision, discrimination of colour. Most numerous in Macula lutea
• Optic disc is devoid of photoreceptors
• Rods are more in number(100) million
• Predominate in peripheral area
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• Retina
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Visual feld & retinal quadrent-Head & eye are maintained in a fixed posture• One eye is closed• Area seen by the open eye constitute the
visual field of that eye• Visual field of the two eye overlap to a great
extent• On either side there is a small area which is
seen only by eye of that side. • For convenience visual field is divided into
right & left halves
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• For convenience visual field is divided into rt & lt halves
• On retina image is inverted
• Two halves of retina are usually referred
As nasal & temporal halves
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Optic nerve, optic chiasma & Optic tract• Optic nerve is made up of axons of ganglion cells of
retina• Fibers of the nerve arising from the four quadrants of
retina maintain the same relative position within the nerve• Fibers from the macula are numerous & form
papillomacular bundle• The fibers of the nasal half of each retina enter the optic
tract of the opposite side after crossing in the chiasma• Fibers from the temporal half enter the optic tract of same
side• Optic tract carries these fibers to lateral geniculate body
of the corresponding side
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Lateral geniculate body-• Part of metathalamus• Grey matter is split into 6 layers• Fibers from the same side eye end in
laminae 2, 3, & 5.• Fibers from opposite side eye end in
1, 4 & 6• Macular fiber end in central & posterior
part of body & this area is relatively large
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Geniculocalcarine tract & visual cortex• Fibers arising from
geniculate body form geniculocalcarine or optic radiation
• These fiber pass through retrolentiform part of internal capsule
• Radiation end in visual areas of cerebral cortex (Area 17, 18 & 19)
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• Cortex receives impulses from retinal halves of the same side( from opposite halves of field of vision)
• The cortical area of macula is much larger than that for the peripheral area.
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Reprenstation of visual fieldinthe retinae, LGB & the visual cortex
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• Applied - Loss of vision in one half is called hemianopia
• If the same half of the visual field is lost in both eyes it is called as homonymous & if the different half are lost then it is called heteronymous.
• Hemianopia is named in relation to the visual field & not to the retina
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Auditory pathway
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Vestibular nerve
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Auditory radiation in internal capsule
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Auditory area on superolateral surface of cerebral hemisphere