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Brain and Cranial Nerves Flashcards

1
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What is the midbrain important for ?

A

motor movement, movements of eye, auditory and visual processing

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what is pons involved in

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control of breathing, communication between different parts of the brain, sensations such as hearing, taste and balance

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What does the medulla help regulate?

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breathing, heart and blood vessel function, digestion, sneezing and swallowing

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4
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Cranial nerves list

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Olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducent, facial, vestibulocochlear, glossopharygeal, vagus, spinal accessory, hypoglossal

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5
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What are meninges?

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protective covering for brain and spinal cord

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3 layers of meninges

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dura mater, arachnoid mater and pia mater

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2 layers of dura mater

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periosteal and meningeal

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8
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Is dura mater vascular

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yes

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9
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is dura mater innervated

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yes

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10
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what does the arachnoid mater contain

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arachnoid granulations

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11
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what does the subarachnoid space contain

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CSF

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12
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What does the pia mater do?

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coats brain and blood vessels, nerves entering/ leaving brain

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13
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Arterial communication improving circulation

A

Circle of Willis

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14
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Somatic sensory nerve modality

A

from skin, mucosa, fascia

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Somatic motor nerve modality

A

to skeletal muscle

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16
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Parasympathetic nerve modality

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autonomic nervous system- rest and digest

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17
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special sensory modality

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from special sense organs

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18
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Example of a mixed nerve

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trigeminal

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19
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Visceral sensory modality

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from carotid body, pharynx etc

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20
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What cranial nerves are special sensory?

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CNI, CNII, CNV111

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21
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What cranial nerves are somatic motor?

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CNIV, CNVI, CNXI, CNXII

22
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What cranial nerves are mixed?

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CNIII, CNV, CNVII, CNIX,CNX

23
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CN I sense ?

A

smell

24
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Where do olfactory receptor cells pass through?

A

cribriform plate

25
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CN II sense?

A

sight

26
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CN II pass through?

A

optic canal

27
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CNIII mixed nerve of what?

A

somatic motor and parasympathetic

28
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CNIII somatic motor supply to which muscles?

A

4 extra-ocular muscles and levator palpebral superioris

29
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CN III parasympathetic supply to what?

A

sphincter papillae muscle

30
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what is the iris covered by?

A

clear cornea

31
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What does light pass through after the pupil?

A

focussing lens

32
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What muscle is associated with the iris?

A

Circular smooth muscle

33
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What constricts the pupil?

A

parasympathetics

34
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What nerve does parasympathetics reach the eye via?

A

CN III

35
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What muscle is associated with the iris?

A

radial smooth muscle

36
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What does sympathetics do to the pupil?

A

dilate the pupil

37
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How do sympathetic nerve fibres reach the orbit?

A

following arteries especially the internal carotid

38
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Optic nerve clinical testing?

A

direct light reflex

39
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What nerve for sensory limb of reflex?

A

CN II - spreads to other side at optic chiasm

40
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What nerve for motor limb if reflex?

A

CNs III - parasympathetic travel to the sphincter papillae muscles of both eyes

41
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What muscle does CNIV supply?

A

superior oblique muscle

42
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What muscle for CNVI

A

lateral rectus muscle

43
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CNVa sensory to?

A

skin of upper face

44
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CNVb sensory to?

A

skin of mid-face

45
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CNVc sensory to?

A

sensory to most of lower face

46
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CNVc motor to?

A

muscles of mastication, ABD, mylohyoid and 2 ‘tensors’

47
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What CN emerges directly from pons?

A

CNV

48
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What cranial nerves enter/exit the anterior cranial fossa?

A

CNs I

49
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What cranial nerves enter/exit the middle cranial fossa?

A

CNs II,III,IV,V(a,b,c), VI

50
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What cranial nerves enter/exit the posterior cranial fossa?

A

CNs VII, VIIII, IX, X, XI, XII

51
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Where do all the sensory fibres from Va, Vb and Vc join together?

A

trigeminal sensory ganglion

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