Pathways And Subcortical Regions And Cranial Nerves

Question 1

Pathways
Brain stem
Cerebellum
Limbic system
Basal ganglia
Cranial nerves

Answer 1

All involved in neural processing of speech

Question 2

The brainstem is

Answer 2

Channel for sensory and motor pathways

Question 3

The Limbic system is

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Structures within cerebrum involved in emotions, motivations, memory and adaptive functions

Question 4

Limbic system is composed of

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Cingulate gyrus
Hippocampus
Amygdala
And more

Question 5

Hippocampus lies deep within

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Temporal lobe and consolidates information from short and long term memory

Question 6

Hippocampus is affected in

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Alzheimer’s disease

Question 7

Amygdala is attached to

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Hippocampus and processes fearful emotions

Question 8

Cerebellum has two hemispheres and connects to brainstem via

Answer 8

3 pathways

Question 9

The cerebellum ensures

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Coordination of movement (important for balance) and damage to this affects production of steady movement

Question 10

Cerebellum is involved in

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Coordination of the various muscle groups to produce a smooth flow of speech and swallowing

Damage - slurring of speech

Question 11

The cerebellum is the region of the brain that’s plays an important role in the

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Integration of sensory perception and motor output

Attention, music and language

Question 12

Cerebellum and speech

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Engaged in the control of up to 100 or so vocal tract muscles engaged in speech production

Question 13

Cerebral connections include

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Projection tracts and association tracts

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Projection tracts are corticobulbar and corticospinal and involve

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Long axons and cortex to brainstem/spinal cord

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Association tracts are arcuate fasciculus and are

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Intrahemispheric (within and between lobes)

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Arcuate fasciculus connects

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Speech and language cortical areas in frontal, temporal and parietal loves

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Corticobulbar/nuclear tract

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Bulbar-brainstem
Fibres originate in primary motor cortex (cell bodies upper motor neurons)
End in brainstem
Fibres for control of facial, jaw, tongue, velopharyngeal and laryngeal muscles connect with lower motor neurons

Question 18

Corticospinal tract fibres originate in

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Primary motor, pre motor, supplementary motor cortex (cell bodies)

End in spinal cord (lower motor neurons)

Question 19

Subcortical nuclei is composed of

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Basal ganglia and thalamus

Question 20

What are the basal ganglia?

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Group of nuclei (cell bodies)

Involved in motor control, motor learning and behaviour/emotions

Question 21

Basal ganglia involved

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Striatum (caudate and putamen)
And globus pallidus

Involved in input or output nuclei

Question 22

Basal ganglia processes movement (muscles of face, larynx, tongue and pharynx)
Main site of dopamine release

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Damage can result in involuntary movement (lack of coordination)-Parkinson’s disease

Question 23

Thalamus is made up of

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Hypothalamus 
Epithalamus
Pre thalamus
Dorsal thalamus 
And relays station between au cortical areas and cortex

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Thalamus relays sensory information

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Almost all sensory systems have thalamic nuclei

Question 25

Thalamus and language

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It is involved in language processing and verbal short term memory

Damage - deficits in memory, attention and reduced spontaneous speech

Question 26

Neural pathway of speech

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Intention-ideation-perception
Linguistic~symbolic processing-longuistic form (wernickes area)
Motor speech performing (Broca's)
Coordination
Execution (motor cortex)

Question 27

Cranial Nerves for speech and swallowing : cranial nerve v- trigeminal- sensory and motor nerves with three divisions

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1. Ophthalamic
2. Maxillary- both sensory: touch, pressure, pain from mid and upper face, maxillary teeth, sinuses
3. Mandibular- sensory: touch and pressure from lower teeth, skin of lower face and two thirds of tongue, pinna
   Motor: innervate a jaw closing muscles (DIGASTRIC, palatal tensor, tensor tympani and mylohyoid)

Question 28

Cranial nerve Vii: facial-sensory and motor nerves

Answer 28

Sensory: touch, pressure, taste, pain from mid and upper face, maxillary teeth, sinuses

Motor: innervate all muscles of facial expression, the Stapedius. Produces saliva

Orbicularis Oris, mentalis, levator Anguli Oris etc

Question 29

Cranial nerve Viii: auditory-vestibular nerve

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Sensory nerves( carries information from both cochlea and vestibular apparatus of inner ear to brainstem)

Question 30

Cranial nerve ix: glossopharyngeal- sensory and motor nerves

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Sensory: touch, pressure from posterior tongue, parts of pharynx, pinna. And ear drum(inner surface)

Motor- innervates stylopharyngeus (swallowing)

Question 31

Cranial nerve X: vagus

Sensory and motor nerves

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Sensory: touch, pressure from larynx, pharynx
Motor: innervates pharyngeal constrictor, palatal levator, intrinsic muscles of the larynx and palatoglossus

Question 32

Cranial nerve xi: spinal accessory nerve

Motor nerves

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Motor: innervates sternocleidomastoid and trapezius

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Cranial nerve X11: hypoglossal

Motor nerves

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Motor:innervates all intrinsic tongue muscles and all but one extrinsic

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Cranial nerves for other function: cranial nerve I: olfactory

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Sensory nerves that run posteriorly to cortex (temporal lobe)

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Other function of Crania nerve II: optic

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Sensory nerves that sends electrical impulses from retina to visual cortex (occipital lobe)

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Another function for cranial nerve III: oculomotor

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Motor nerves that move eyeball up and down

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Another function of cranial nerve IV: trochlear

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Motor nerves that moves eye up, down, round and side to side

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Another function for cranial nerve VI: abducens

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Motor nerves that turn eyeball to side of head

Question 39

Neural control of swallowing

Answer 39

Nearly all structures are same as involved in speech except esophagus

Primary motor cortex
Pre motor cortex
Primary sensory cortex
Insula
Basal ganglia
Thalamus
Cerebellum