Other Cranial Nerves Flashcards
What is the functional category and function of the olfactory nerve (CN I)?
- Functional Category: Special somatic sensory
- Function: Olfaction
What is the functional category and function of the optic nerve (CN II)?
- Functional Category: Special somatic sensory
- Function: vision
What is the functional category and function of the oculomotor nerve (CN III)?
- Functional Category: Somatic motor
- Function: Levator palpebrae superior and all extraocular muscles except for superior oblique & lateral rectus
- Functional Category: Parasympathetic
- Function: Parasympathetic to pupil constrictor and ciliary muscle for near vision
What is the functional category and function of the Trochlear Never (CN IV)?
- Functional Category: somatic motor
- Function: Superior oblique muscle; cause depression and intorsion of the eye
What is the functional category and function of the trigeminal nerve (CN V)?
- Functional Category: General somatic sensory
- Function: Sensation of touch, pain, temp, joint position & vibration for the face, mouth, anterior 2/3 of tongue, nasal sinuses & meninges
- Functional Category: Branchial motor
- Function: Muscle of mastication & tensor tympani muscle
What is the functional category and function of the Abducens nerve (CN VI)?
- Functional Category: Somatic motor
- Function: Lateral rectus muscle; causes abduction of the eye
What is the functional category and function of the Fascial nerve (CN VII)?
- Functional Category: Branchial motor
- Function: Muscle of fascial expression, stapedius muscle, & part of digastric muscle
- Functional Category: Parasympathetic
- Function: Parasympathetic to lacrimal glands, and to sublingual, submandibular & all other salivary glands except parotid
- Functional Category: Visceral sensory (special)
- Function: Taste from anterior 2/3 tongue
- Functional Category: General somatic sensory
- Function: Sensation from a small region near the external auditory meatus
What is the functional category and function of the Vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII)?
- Functional Category: Special somatic sensory
- Function: Hearing & vestibular sensation
What is the functional category and function of the Glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX)?
- Functional Category: Branchial Motor
- Function: Stylopharyngeus muscle
- Functional Category: Parasympathetic
- Function: Parasympathetics to parotid gland
- Functional Category: General somatic sensory
- Function: Sensation from middle ear, region near the external auditory meatus, pharynx & posterior 1/3 of tongue
- Functional Category: Visceral sensory (special)
- Function: Taste from posterior 1/3 of tongue
- Functional Category: Visceral sensory (general)
- Function: Chemo and baroreceptor of carotid body
What is the functional category and function of the vagus nerve (CN X)?
- Functional Category: Branchial motor
- Function: Pharyngeal muscles (swallowing) & laryngeal muscles (voice box)
- Functional category: Parasympathetic
- Function: Parasympathetic to heart, lungs & digestive tract down to the splenic flexure
- Functional Category: General somatic sensory
- Function: Sensation from pharynx, meninges & a small region near the external auditory meatus
- Functional category: Visceral sensory (special)
- Function: taste from epiglottis & pharynx
- Functional Category: Visceral sensory (general)
- Function: chemo & baroreceptors of the aortic arch
What is the functional category and function of the spinal accessory nerve (CN XI)?
- Functional Category: Branchial motor
- Function: Sternocleidomastoid (SCM) & upper part of trap
What is the functional category and function of the hypoglossal nerve (CN XII)?
- Functional Category: Somatic motor
- Function: intrinsic muscle of the tongue
Cranial nerve nuclei form what?
- 3 motor columns
- 3 sensory columns
- Each column serves a different motor or sensory cranial nerve function
Where are cranial nerve nuclei founded and run the length of what?
- Founded in embryological development
- Run the length of the brainstem
What are the 3 major branches of the Trigeminal Nerve (CN V)?
- Ophthalmic division
- Maxillary division
- Mandibular division
What are the 3 nuclei of the trigeminal nuclear complex?
- Mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus
- Chief trigeminal nucleus
- Spinal trigeminal nucleus
Where does the Trigeminal Nuclear Complex run and where does it receive input from?
- Runs from midbrain to upper c - spine
- Receive input from CN V (& CNN VII, IX & X)
Where is the Chief Trigeminal Sensory Nucleus located?
Lateral pons
What are the primary sensory neurons of the Chief Trigeminal Sensory Nucleus?
- Fine touch & dental pressure
- Synapse in chief trigeminal sensory nucleus
What are the secondary neuron of the Chief Trigeminal Sensory Nucleus?
- Crosses in brainstem
- Ascend in trigeminal lemniscus
- Synapses in the ventral posterior medial (VPM) of the thalamus
What is the tertiary neuron of the Chief Trigeminal Sensory Nucleus?
Travels to the face area of the primary somatosensory cortex
How is fine touch and dental pressure sensed?
Axons of the secondary neuron travel from the Chief sensory nucleus of CN V to the contralateral VPM via the trigeminal lemniscus
Where is the spinal trigeminal nucleus located?
Lateral pops, medulla & upper c-spine
Primary sensory neurons of the spinal trigeminal nucleus convey what? Where do they enter, decend and then synapse?
- Crude touch, pain & temp
- Enter lateral pons & descend in the spinal trigeminal tract
- Synapse in the spinal trigeminal nucleus
Describe the secondary neuron in the spinal trigeminal nucleus
- Crosses in brainstem
- Ascends in trigeminothalamic tract
- Synapses in the ventral posterior medial (VPM) of the thalamus
Where does the tertiary neuron travel of the spinal trigeminal nucleus?
Travels to the face area of the primary somatosensory cortex
How is the sensation of crude touch, pain & temp conveyed?
- Axons of the primary sensory neuron descending ipsilaterally in the spinal trigeminal tract
- Synapse in the spinal trigeminal nucleus
- Cross and ascend in the contralateral trigeminothalamic tract to the VPM of the thalamus
Where is Mesencephalic Trigeminal Nucleus & Tract located?
Lateral to periaqueductal gray of midbrain
Mesencephalic Trigeminal Nucleus receive proprioceptive input from where?
Muscles of mastication, tongue & extraocular muscles
What is the only case of the cell body of the primary sensory neuron being located in the CNS? (instead of in peripheral ganglia)
Mesencephalic Trigeminal Nucleus
What is the Mesencephalic Trigeminal Tract?
Ascending & descending fibers from mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus
What is the monosynaptic jaw jerk reflex?
- Descending fibers synapse in the motor trigeminal nucleus in the pons
- Presence of reflex is an abnormal repose (hyperreflexia)
How is proprioception conveyed?
Primary sensory neuron cell body sits within the central nervous system in the mesencephalic nucleus and ascends or descends as the mesencephalic trigeminal tract
Where is the Trigeminal Motor Nucleus located?
Upper to mid pons
What does the Trigeminal Motor Nucleus innervate?
Muscles of mastication & smaller muscles such as tensor tympani
The trigeminal motor nucleus receives bilateral UMN input from corticobulbar tract. So what occurs with:
- Unilateral UMN lesion?
- Bilareal UMN lesions?
- Unilateral: no deficits
- Bilateral: brisk jaw jerk reflex
What type of sensory loss is observed with damage to the spinal trigeminal nucleus in the brainstem?
Ipsilateral loss of fascial pain & temperature sensation
Lateral pons and medulla level injury often involve nearby spinothalamic tract. So what sensory loss can be seen with thesis injuries?
- Spinal trigeminal tract (ipsilateral loss of pain & temp in the face)
- Spinothalamic tract
(contralateral loss of pain & temp in the body)