mortor pathways

Question 1

what does the thalamus do

Answer 1

helps control consciousness and relays information

Question 2

what is the internal capsule

Answer 2

are which fibres from the motor cortex travel through to reach the different cranial nerves neculi and the corticospinal tract

Question 3

what supplies the internal capsule

Answer 3

anterior cerebral artery branches

Question 4

what is the pathway named after leaving the internal capsule

Answer 4

pyramidal tract

Question 5

what is the nucleus amigus

Answer 5

is a nucleus for cranial nerves 9,10,11 as no disinct nuclei for individual nerves

Question 6

what is the pyramidal decussation

Answer 6

is where the pyramidal tract will transverse sides and will innervate the opposite side

Question 7

what 2 cranial nerves are not supplied by both sides of the primary motor cortect

Answer 7

the hypoglossal nerve and parts of the facial (below the eyebrow)

Question 8

what is the nucleus in relation to motor pathways

Answer 8

cluster of neutron cell bodies carrying same function