[lbo-talk] EEGs show brain differences between poor and richkids

[Chuck Grimes]

``The eyes grow in the front of the skull, but the optic nerves make
their connections with the very back part of the brain. How do they
know how to get there?'' CG

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I forgot. It's actually more complicated. The nerve fibers start
from both ends, from the occipital lobes and the retina and grow
toward each other, meeting in lateral geniculate nuclei.

http://www.aph.org/cvi/images/brain_2.jpg

http://education.vetmed.vt.edu/curriculum/VM8054/EYE/CHIASM2.JPG