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Symptoms of Bell’s Palsy

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Facial paralysis
Smoothing of facial wrinkles
Drooling
Inability to completely close eye
Dry eye
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What is Bell’s Palsy?

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Temporary paralysis of CN VII due to swelling of the nerve in the facial canal of the temporal bone

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What does the central nervous system consist of?

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The brain and the spinal cord

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What does the peripheral nervous system consist of?

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Cranial and spinal nerves

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What is CN I and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The olfactory nerve

At the cribriform plate

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What is CN II and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The optic nerve

Optic canal

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What is CN III and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The oculomotor nerve

Superior orbital fissure

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What is CN IV and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The trochlear nerve

Superior orbital fissure

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What is CN V and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The trigeminal nerve
V1: superior orbital fissure
V2: foramen rotundum
V3: foramen ovale

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What is CN VI and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The abducens nerve

The superior orbital fissure

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What is CN VII and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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Internal acoustic meatus

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What is CN VIII and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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Vestibulocochlear nerve

Internal acoustic meatus

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What is CN IX and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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Glossopharyngeal nerve

The jugular foramen

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What is CN X and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The vagus nerve

Jugular foramen

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What is CN XI and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The spinal accessory nerve

Jugular foramen

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What is CN XII and where does it exit the cranial cavity?

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The hypoglossal nerve

Hypoglossal canal

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What type of fibers carry motor information away from the CNS?

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Efferent fibers

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What type of fibers carry sensory information toward the CNS?

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Afferent fibers

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What is the visceral efferent system also know as and what two systems is it divided into?

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The autonomic system which is divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic systems

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What type of tissue is innervated by general somatic efferent nerve fibers?

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Skeletal muscle

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What type of tissues are innervated by General somatic afferent nerve fibers?

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Conscious sensation from skin

Skeletal muscle

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What type of tissue is innervated by General visceral efferent nerve fibers?

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Smooth muscle

Glands

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What types of tissues are innervated by General visceral afferent nerve fibers?

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Unconscious sensation from viscera and blood vessels

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What type of tissues are innervated by special afferent nerve fibers?

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Vision
Hearing
Balance
Taste
Smell
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What types of actions does the sympathetic nervous system control?

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Constriction of blood vessels
Secretion of sweat
Dilation of pupils

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What type of bodily functions does the parasympathetic system control?

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Dilation of blood vessels
Secretion of tears
Secretion of mucus
Constriction of pupils

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What are the special afferent CN’s?

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Olfactory

Optic vestibulocochlear

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What are the general efferent only CN’s?

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Trochlear
Abducens
Spinal accessory
Hypoglossal

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What do lesions of general efferent nerves cause?

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Motor deficits only

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What does injury to the cribriform plate or a congenital defect of CN 1 cause?

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Loss of smell (anosmia)

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What ganglia do each branch of CN V suspend?

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V1: ciliary ganglion
V2: pterygopalatine ganglion
V3: submandibular/otic ganglion

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What does an orbital trauma or a disruption of the optic pathway cause? (CN II)

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Blindness, visual field anomalies

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What does an aneurism, cavernous sinus mass or thrombosis result in near CN III?

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Dilated pupil
Loss of pupil reflexes
Eye is down and out
Ptosis

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What happens when there is a mass near the trigeminal ganglion or around the foramen a where any of the CN V divisions pass?

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Loss of facial sensation
Loss of mm of mastication function
Loss of corneal touch reflex and sneezing reflex

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What does an orbital fracture do to CN IV?

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Unable to look inferior my when eye is adducted

Head tilt

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What happens where there is a brain or cavernous sinus lesion of CN VI?

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Unable to abduct eye

Eye turn medially

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What happens if there is damage to branches in the parotid, a temporal bone injury or inflammation near CN VII?

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Paralysis of facial mm
Abnormal taste from ant 2/3 of tongue
Dry eye

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What happens if there is a tumor at CN VIII?

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Hearing loss

Tinnitus

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What happens if there is a penetrating neck injury or brainstem lesion at CN X?

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Deviation of uvula to normal side
Vocal cord paralysis
Dysphasia

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What happens if there is a penetrating neck injury or brainstem lesion at CN IX?

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Loss of Taste from post 1/3 of tongue and gag reflex

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What happens if there is a penetrating neck injury at CN XI?

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Paralysis of scm and trapezius mm

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What happens if there is a penetrating neck injury at CN XII or a skull base pathology?

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Atrophy of tongue mm and deviation towards affected side

Speech disturbance

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