contralaterally , the retina projects to the preoptic nucleus of the hypothalamus , to four discrete areas located in the lateral neuropil of the thalamus , to a superficial pretectal neuropil , to the upper half of the tectal neutropil , and to a laterally situated basal optic neuropil located in the rostral tegmentum .
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