Neuro 12: Brainstem surface and cranial nerves Flashcards
Brainstem sections top to bottom
Midbrain
Pons
Medulla
CN I Name and function
Olfactory
CN 2 Name and function
Optic
Vision
CN III Name and function
Oculomotor
Eye movements, eye opening, pupil constriction
CN IV Name and function
Trhoclear nerve
Eye movement down and in. SO muscle
CN V Name and function
Trigeminal nerve
Chewing and facial sense
CN VI Name and function
Abducens
Abduction of eye
CN VII Name and function
Facial nerve
Facial expression muscle
Taste anterior tongue
Lacrimation and salivation
CN VIII Name and function
Vestibulocochlear nerve
Hearing, equilibrium
CN IX Name and function
Glossopharyngeal
Phrayngeal muscles, patorid gland
Gag afferent
CN X Name and function
Vagus
Parasympathetics to everything
Laryngeal muscles, pharyngeal muscles
CN XI Name and function
Spinal accessory nerve
Shoulder shrug
CN XII
Hypoglossal nerve
Tongue movements
Cervical limit of brainstem
Cervico medullary junction
Rostral limit of brainstem
Midbrain-diancephalic junction
Superior and inferior colliculi form
tectum of midbrain
Cerebral punduncles
Ventral part of midbrain that looks like pillars
Olfactory nerve enters the forebrain at
Olfactory bulbs and tracts
Optic nerve enters forebrain at
Lateral geniculate nucleus of thalmus
CN III emerges
ventrally from interpeduncular fossa of midbrain
CN IV emerges
dorsal midbrain trochlear nucleus
CN V exits from
Ventrolateral pons
Nerves exiting from superior orbital fissure
III, IV, VI and V1
Nerve exiting foramen rotundum
V2 Maxillary
Nerve exiting foramen ovale
V3 Mandibular
Nerves exiting internal auditory meatus
VII and VIII
Nerves exiting stylomastoid foramen
VII after it goes through auditory meatus
Nerves from jugular foramen
IX, X, XI
Hypoglossal canal nerves
Hypoglossal nerve
duh
Visceral efferent nucleus CN III
Eidinger-Westphal
Motor nucleus CN III
Occulomotor nucleus
CN V Motor nucleus
Trigeminal motor nucleus
CN VII visceral nucleus
Superior salivatory nucleus
Inferior salivatory nucleus
CN IX
CN I and II deficit suggests
Lesion at base of frontal lobes
Bell’s palsy symptoms
Full facial paralysis
Decreased lacrimation
Retroauricular pain
Unilateral hearing loss lesion must happen _______ brainstem
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