Anatomy of Cranial Nerves Flashcards
PNS division
-divided functionally into afferent sensory (impulses toward brain) and efferent motor (impulses away from brain)
- both sensory and motor are then divided into somatic (voluntary functions related to outside world) and visceral (involuntary functions related to internal viscera)
Somatic PNS
-voluntary
-both sensory and motor functions related to outside world
-detection of stimuli in skin and tissues and needed for locomotion, behaviour, expressions
Visceral PNS
-both sensory and motor functions related to internal viscera
-regulation of blood pressure, heart rate, glands, digestion, etc.
-motor component of visceral PNS= autonomic nervous system (ANS)
Division of afferent or sensory systems
1.general sensory
2.Special senses
General sensory
-senses of pressure, stretch, temperature, and noxious stimuli from tissues in body and head
-separated in general somatic afferent/sensory (GVA) and general visceral afferent/sensory (GVA)
General somatic afferent/sensory (GSA) receptors
-receptors in the skin informing stimuli from outside and in deeper somatic tissues informing movements of muscles and body parts relative to one another
General somatic afferent/sensory (GSA) nerve distribution
-found in all spinal nerves
-in cranial nerve V
General visceral afferent/sensory (GVA) receptors
-receptors in vessels, glands, and viscera of head and trunk informing stretch and chemical stimuli
General visceral afferent/sensory (GVA) distribution
-found in all spinal nerves
-found in cranial nerves III, V, VII, IX, X
Special senses
- Senses only found in head (vision, audition, taste, smell, and balance)
- Separated into special somatic afferent/sensory (SSA) and special visceral afferent/sensory (SVA)
Special somatic afferent/sensory (SSA)
-more restricted origin within certain special sense organs of head: retina of eye, cochlear, vestibular of inner ear
Nerves of special somatic afferent/sensory (SSA)
-Cranial nerve II
-cranial nerve VIII
Special visceral afferent/sensory (SVA)
-includes special senses of smell and taste
Nerves of special visceral afferent/sensory (SVA)
-found in cranial nerve I for smell
-found in cranial nerve VII and IX for taste
Division of efferent or motor system
-somatic efferent/motor
-visceral efferent/motor (Autonomic nervous system)
Somatic efferent/motor
-supply striated muscles
-in body and limbs and arise from somites
-in head arise from pharyngeal or branchial arches
- found in all spinal nerves and in all cranial nerves except those exclusively sensory nerves (I, II, VIII)
Exclusively sensory cranial nerves
I, II, VIII
Visceral efferent/motor (Autonomic nervous system)
- Supply smooth muscle of blood vessels, viscera, heart muscle, and glands
- Sympathetic and parasympathetic components
- Many ANS fibers travel to target organs by joining other nerves
Sympathetic and parasympathetic fiber locations
-sympathetic fibers leave spinal nerves in thoracolumbar regions of spinal cord
-parasympathetic fibers found in a small group of cranial nerves (III, VII, IX, X) and in spinal nerves in sacral region of spinal cord
Cranial nerves
-12 paris of cranial nerves
-numbered rostrocaudally
Where do cranial nerves originate from?
-originate from different regions of encephalon
>cerebrum I
>diencephalon II
> mesencephalon III, IV
>pons V
>medulla oblongata VI through to XII
Cranial Nerve Names
1.Olfactory
2.optic
3.oculomotor
4.trochlear
5.trigeminal
6.abducent
7.facial
8. vestibulocochlear
9.glossopharyngeal
10. vagus
11.spinal accessory
12.hypoglossal
Spinal nerves
-dorsal root only contains sensory fibers and ventral root only contains motor
-dorsal and ventral roots combine to form a single mixed spinal nerve
Cranial nerves
-dorsal root equivalents also contain some motor fibers
-dorsal and ventral root equivalents remain as separate cranial nerves
Divisions of cranial nerves
-nerves of special senses
-ventral root equivalents
-dorsal root equivalents
Nerves of special senses (cranial nerves)
-exclusively concerned with special senses
-cranial nerve I, II, VIII
Ventral root equivalents
-homologous with ventral spinal roots
-consist almost entirely of motor fibers
-supply striated head muscles of somatic origin
-move eye or tongue
-III, IV, VI, XII
Dorsal root equivalents
-homologous with dorsal spinal roots
-consist primarily of mixed fibers
-supply structures of pharyngeal arch origin
-V, VII, IX, X, XI
Olfactory nerve function
-special sense of smell
Olfactory nerve (I)
-multiple tracts
-nerves covered by meninges
-pass through olfactory foramina in cribriform plate of ethmoid
-also includes vomeronasal nerves (transmit sense of pheromones)