Jeopardy Review Flashcards
Which cranial nerve is associated with hearing and balance?
CN VIII, vestibulocochlear
Facia numbness or paralysis is indicative of damage to this nerve
CN VI, facial
These two cranial nerves have only afferent fibers
CN I, olfactory
CN II, optic
Name three cranial nerves associated with eye movements
CN III, oculomotor
CN IV, trochlear
CN VI, abducens
Name three sensory nerves
CN I, olfactory
CN II, optic
CN VIII, vestibulocochlear
Which loop is the most studied loop in the basal ganglia?
Movement
Basal ganglia regulates _________actiity initiated by cortex
Motor
This structure is made up of the caudate nucleus and putamen
striatum
This pathway disinhibits the thalamus
direct pathway
damage to the basal ganglia is associated with a _______________ tremor
resting
Which gyrus is functionally motor cortex?
pre-central
Damage to this kind of neuron will lead to bilateral effects
upper motor neurons
This tract innervates the cranial nerves
corticobulbar tract
This tract innervates the lower motor neurons inferior to the medulla
corticospinal tract
This tract seems to be more influential in non-humans
rubrospinal tract
What are the sensory cells for vision?
rods and cones
Name the six muscles that move the eye
Medial and Lateral recti
Superior and Inferior recti
Superior and Inferior obliques
The right ______________ field goes to the left hemisphere
visual
Another name for the “what” pathway
Ventral visual stream
What structures encode linear acceleration?
Utricle and Saccule
What structures encode rotational acceleration?
Semicircular canals
Extra-ocular muscles are inhibited on one side and excited on the other during the _________________.
Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex
What is the midline of the cerebellum?
Vermis
Damage to the cerebellum will be characterized by ________________ tremors.
Movement
Which lobe contains the primary auditory cortex?
Temporal
What is the process of a nerve firing?
Action Potential