Neurology Anatomy and Physiology Flashcards
Serves as the control center for the entire body
Central Nervous system
Integrate incoming info and determine appropriate response (2)
Brain and spinal cord
Peripheral Nervous System
cranial nerves (12 pairs, link to brain) + spinal nerves (31 pairs, link to spinal cord)
PNS + CNS
Peripheral Nervous System + Central Nervous System
3 types of Nerve Fibers
Sensory, Motor, and Sensory+Motor(mixed)
Receive impulses from sense organs, and transmit to CNS
Sensory nerve fibers
Conduct impulses away from CNS, traveling to muscles and causing to contract/glands to secrete
Motor nerve fibers
Nerve that conducts towards CNS
afferent nerve
Nerve that conducts away from CNS
efferent nerve
12 pairs of cranial nerves
olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abducens, facial, vestibulocochlear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, spinal accessory, hypoglossal
Sensory pair of cranial nerves for smell
olfactory
sensory pair of cranial nerves for vision
optic
motor cranial nerves for movement of eyeball/eyelid, pupil size, lens
oculomotor
cranial nerves for sensations of head and face, chewing
trigeminal (Opthalmic - eyes forehead, Maxillary - upper teeth, palate, upper lip, Mandibular - lower teeth, skin of jaw)
motor cranial nerves for eye movement
abducens
mixed cranial nerves for taste, facial expression, saliva/tears
facial
sensory cranial nerves for hearing/equilibrium
vestibulocochlear - vestibular branch (equilibrium), cochlear branch (hearing)
mixed cranial nerves for taste, swallowing, saliva secretion, ear pain/temperature, tongue movement
glossopharyngeal
mixed cranial nerves for sensation from larynx, trachea, heard, abdo/tx organs
vagus
motor cranial nerves for movement of shoulders/head/neck/back , condition of neck+shoulder muscles
spinal accessory
motor cranial nerves for tongue movement
hypoglossal
anterior root (spinal nerves)
motor fibers
posterior root (spinal nerves)
sensory fibers
network of fibers from spinal nerves
plexus
4 main plexuses of spinal nerves
cervical, brachial, lumbar, sacral
spinal nerves - skin over back of head - c1
lesser occipital