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Test 2: Visual Flashcards

1
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What CN does vision

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CN II- optic nerve

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2
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Why is CNII NOT a peripheral nerve?

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retinal structure from diencephalon development

myelinated neurons with oligodendycytes-CNS

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What is the pathway of light traveling into the eye?

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Iris through lens to retina- focused on fovea to optic nerve

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What does the pupillary constrictor muscle do?

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controls amount of light entering the eye via controlling the iris

  • parasympathetic constricts
  • synpathetic relaxes
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5
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What do ciliary muscles do?

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adjusts lens thickness to help bend light to focal point (fovea)

  • visual accomodation
  • paraysmp: thickens
  • sympathetic relaxes
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6
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What is the retina? what’s in it?

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has visual receptors lining the walls of the eye

  • macula on posterior wall= increase density
  • fovea in macula= highest density of cones
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What is the optic disk? what’s in it?

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blind spot

  • axons from retina and vasculature exit through here
  • vascular from internal carotid-opthalamic vessels
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8
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What makes up the fovea?

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5 types of neurons

  • mainly photoreceptors= rods and cones
  • retinal ganglia cells

Everything flipped upside down!!

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What are rods?

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photoreceptor in fovea

  • ALL wavelengths visible light
  • dense around macula
  • detects light levels and motion– course vision
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What are cones?

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photreceptor in fovea

  • 3 types of pigements to transduce color wavelenths: red, green, blue
  • most dense around fovea where macula has greatest visual acquity
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What are retinal ganglia?

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output neurons- 1CB of visual pathway

  • axons collect at optic disk and once exit eye all travel as CNII
  • unmeylinated axons until exit disk-> myelinated with oligodend
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What are pigment epitheliums? what are the 3 types?

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melanin that absorbs light to decrease scatter

  1. opesins: photo pigment for color
  2. rodespin: light/dark
  3. melanopsin: special ganglia with melanin
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13
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What are the 4 possible pathways of visual perception?

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  1. Primary pathway-> V1
    - occipital pole
  2. Suprachiasm nucleus of hypothal
    - diurnal clock
    - light/dark
    - melanopsin
  3. Pretectal nuclei (midbrain)
    - pupil constrictor/thicken lens
    - parasympathetic reflexes
  4. Superior colliculus (midbrain)
    - eye movements relative to environment
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What is the 1neron characteristic of the Primary Visual pathway?

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axons off of photoreceptors

  • collect/sort 3 regions of projections
  • all axons travel in ipsilateral optic nerve
  • enter chiasm: vulnerable to pituitary tumor damage

Nasal: 60% decussate in chiasm-> contrlateral optic tract
Temporal: 40% stay ipsilateral-> ipsilateral optic tract

Tracts-> LGN -> internal capsule -> optic radiations -> VI

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What is the BA number of V1

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BA 17

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16
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What are the layers of the LGN

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4 parvocellar layers: show color

2 magnocellar layers: percieve motion

17
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What is the striate cortex?

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superior and inferior banks by calcacrine sulcus

Inferior visual field goes up through parietal to SUP bank

Superior visual field goes down through temporal to INF bank
-some bend around inferior horn of lateral ventricles= Meyers loop

18
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What is the monocular visual field?

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Vision of one eye
-seperate into 4 quadrants: superior, inferior, nasal, and temporal

TEMP CRESCENTS 930 deg) project to NASAL retina

19
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What is the binocular visual field?

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Detected by both eyes
-majority of visual field except small monocular temporal crescents

MOST (90 deg) projects to BILAT TEMPORAL retina

20
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What do the extraocular muscles do in relationship to convergence?

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control eye alignment- focul point on fovea

-converge to fovea to get optimal visual acuity

21
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How does the light refract through lens and in brain?

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Inverted through lens onto retina

  • inferior field on top
  • superior field on bottom

L and right fields are flipped
-temporal visual field of L eye projects to nasal retina of left eye

22
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Where do the R visual fields project in the brain?

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LEFT V1

23
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What does damage to the L eye/optic nerve result in?

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Ipsilateral blindness

  • can’t see from L eye
  • monocular field deficit
24
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What does damage to the L optic chiasm do?

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Bitemporal meianopia

  • impaired peripheral vision bilaterall
  • affects nasal retina axons at decussations
25
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What does damage to the L optic tract do?

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contrlateral homonomous hemianopnia

  • impaired visual field contrlateral to tract
  • R peripheral vision and left nasal vision
26
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What does damage to LGN axons around inferior horn do?

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Superior portion of contrlateral homonomous

-1/4 field okay

27
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Why does macular sparing occur?

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Redundant sampling of each quadrant
OR
MCA and ACA blood supply

28
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What is the pathways of the pupilary light reflexes?

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Retinal ganglia cells down CNII bypass LGN-> Pretectal nucleus
Pretectal-> BILAT Ed-West nucleus
Ed West-> ciliary ganglia via CNIII )oculomotor)
Ciliary ganglia-> pupilary constrictor muscle

29
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Where is the CB of post-ganglionic nucleus in pupilary reflex?

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ciliary gangliaa(along CNIII)

30
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Where are the CB of pre-ganglionic neurons in pupilary reflex?

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Ed-westphal

31
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What is the area called where axons decussate from pretectub to contrlat E-W?

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posterior commisure

32
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What is it called when the ipsilateral eye reflex contracts? Contralateral? Both at once?

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Direct
Indirect
Consensual

33
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How would a lesion of the ipsilateral optic nerve affect pupilary reflex?

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Direct and indirect Absent

34
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How would a lesion to the contralteral optic nerve affect pupilary reflex?

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Direct and Indirect Present

35
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How would ipsilateral lesion to oculomotor nerve affect reflex?

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Direct absent

Indirect present

36
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How would contrlateral lesion to oculomotor nerve affect reflex?

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Direct present

indirect Absent

37
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What is the fusiform gyrus?

A

Occipotemporal gyri

  • source of facial representations
  • can get hallucinations if spontaneously activate
  • primary visual lesions can cause association areas like this to fire sporadically

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