A BUNDLE of nerve-fibres running upwards from the tip of the pineal gland in some mammals was described by Kolmer and Loewy in 1922 1, and was termed by them the "nervus conarii". However ...
This suggests that the reduction in pineal gland size is not part of a broader change in brain structure, but may instead be ...
As a highly conserved structure in the brain ... and this is probably related to its evolutional relationship with the pineal gland 4 (see below). Normal sleep and sleep-like states are considered ...