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week 7 - neuro (cranial nerves and CN nuclei) Flashcards

1
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What goes through the superior orbital fissure (lateral to medial)?

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Superior ophthalmic vein, lacrimal nerve, frontal nerve, trochlear nerve, abducent nerve, oculomotor nerve, nasociliary nerve

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What goes through the cribriform plate?

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Olfactory nerve, anterior and posterior ethmoidal artery

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What goes through the optic canal?

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Optic nerve and ophthalmic artery

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What goes through the foramen rotundum?

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Maxillary division of the Trigeminal Nerve

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What goes through the foramen ovale?

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The mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve and the lesser petrosal nerve

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What goes through the carotid canal?

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Internal carotid artery and carotid sympathetic plexus

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What goes through the foramen spinosum?

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Middle meningeal artery , meningeal branch of mandibular nerve

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What goes through the hiatus of canal for lesser petrosal nerve?

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Lesser petrosal nerve and superior tympanic artery

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What goes through the hiatus of canal for greater petrosal nerve?

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Greater petrosal nerve

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What goes through the hiatus of canal for greater petrosal nerve?

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Greater petrosal nerve

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What goes through the internal acoustic meatus?

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Labyrinthine artery and vein, vestibulocochlear and facial nerve

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What goes through the jugular foramen?

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Internal jugular vein, glossopharyngeal nerve, vagus nerve, accessory nerve, inferior petrosal sinus, posterior meningeal artery

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What goes through the foramen magnum?

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Spinal vein, anterior spinal artery, spinal cord, spinal root of accessory nerve, vertebral artery

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What goes through the condylar canal?

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Condylar emissary vein

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What goes through the hypoglossal canal?

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Hypoglossal nerve

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What goes through the mastoid foramen?

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An emissary vein

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What goes through the stylomastoid foramen?

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Facial nerve, stylomastoid artery

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What goes through the petrotympanic fissure?

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Anterior tympanic artery, chorda tympani

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What goes through the foramen lacerum?

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Deep petrosal nerve and greater petrosal nerve

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What goes through the lesser palatine foramen?

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Lesser palatine nerve and artery

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What goes through the greater palatine foramen?

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Greater palatine nerve and artery

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What goes through the incisive canal?

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Nasopalatine nerve and artery

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Which bones make up the cranial fossa?

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Frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, temporal, parietal, occipital

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Which foramen are in the occipital bone?

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Hypoglossal canal, foramen magnum

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Which foramen are in the temporal bone?

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Carotid canal, stylomastoid foramen, jugular foramen, mastoid foramen

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Which foramen are in the sphenoid bone?

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Foramen ovale, foramen spinosum, foramen rotundum?

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What does the olfactory nerve do?

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SVA - special sense of smell

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What does the optic nerve do?

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SVA - special sense of sight

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What does the oculomotor nerve do?

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GSE - Motor to extraocular muscles
GVE - Parasympathetic to smooth muscle in the eye

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What does the trochlear nerve do?

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GSE - Motor to superior oblique muscle

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What does the trigeminal nerve do?

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GSA- sensory to face, orbit, nose, anterior tongue
SVE - motor to muscles of mastication

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What does the abducens nerve do?

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GSE - motor to lateral rectus muscle

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33
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What does the facial nerve do?

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GSA - sensory to skin of ear
SVA - special sense of taste to anterior tongue
GVE - motor and parasympathetic to salivary, nasal and lacrimal glands
SVE - motor to facial muscles

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What does the vestibulocochlear nerve do?

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SSA - special sense of hearing and balance

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What does the glossopharyngeal nerve do?

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GSA - sensory to posterior tongue
SVA - special sensory taste to posterior tongue
GVA - sensory from middle ear, pharynx, carotid body/sinus
GVE - motor to parotid gland (parasympathetic)
SVE - motor to stylopharyngeus

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What does the vagus nerve do?

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GSA - sensory to external ear
SVA - special sense of taste - epiglottis
GVA - sensory from pharynx, larynx and viscera
GVE - motor to viscera
SVE - motor to muscles of larynx/pharynx

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What does the accessory nerve do?

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SVE - motor to sternocleidomastoid and trapezius

38
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What does the hypoglossal nerve do?

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GSE - motor to muscles of the tongue

39
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Which cranial nerve(s) provide motor supply to the tongue?

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Hypoglossal - all muscles except palatoglossus
Vagus - palatoglossus

40
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Which cranial nerves provide general sensation to the tongue?

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Glossopharyngeal - posterior 1/3
Mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve - anterior 2/3rds

41
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Which cranial nerves provide taste sensation to the tongue?

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Glossopharyngeal - posterior 1/3rd
Facial nerve (chorda tympani branch) - anterior 2/3rds

42
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Which cranial nerves have parasympathetic fibres?

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10, 9, 7, 3

43
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What does the vagus nerve parasympathetics do?

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Supply to the viscera of the foregut, midgut, cardiac and pulmonary plexuses

44
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What does the glossopharyngeal parasympathetics do?

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parotid salivary gland

45
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What does the facial parasympathetics do?

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tear, nasal and salivary glands

46
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What does the oculomotor parasympathetics do?

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Narrows pupils and focuses lens

47
Q

What visual changes might one see in a patient with a pituitary tumour?

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Bitemporal hemianopia

48
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What is cavernous sinus syndrome?

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Any pathology in the cavernous sinus that presents as unilateral ophthalmoplegia (CNIII, IV, VI dysfunction), autonomic dysfunction (horner’s syndrome) or V1 loss

49
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What is the presentation of abducens nerve palsy?

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When looking outwards, the affected eye does not abduct

50
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What is horner’s syndrome?

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Dysfunction of the parasympathetics of oculomotor (ptosis, miosis (constricted pupil) and anhydrosis

51
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what is the clinical presentation of an oculomotor nerve lesion?

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Drooping eyelid, diplopia, pupil dilation, impaired downward and inward movement of the eyeball

52
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What is the clinical presentation of a trochlear nerve lesion?

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Double vision on looking down or reading/walking down stairs

53
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What is the presentation of a middle cranial fossa fracture?

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CFS otorrhoea and rhinorrhoea, haematotympanum, conductive or sensorineural hearing loss, epistaxis, battles sign (post auricular bruising), vertigo and nystagmus

54
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What is Bell’s palsy?

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Complete or partial paralysis of CN7, most likely caused by an infection

55
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How does Bell’s palsy present?

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No forehead sparing, eye drooping, increased sound sensitivity, mouth drooping, decreased taste

56
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Why does an acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma) affect cranial nerves 5, 7 and 8?

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It grows on CNVIII, and compresses local structures such as CNV and CNVII

57
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What is the general presentation of an acoustic neuroma?

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Progressive Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness (Facial pain, numbness, facial weakness, headaches, vomiting)

58
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What is jugular foramen syndrome?

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Paresis of CNIX, CNX, CNXI (and sometimes CNXII)

59
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What are the symptoms of jugular foramen syndrome?

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dysphonia, soft palate dropping, uvula deviation towards normal side, dysphagia, loss of taste from back of tongue, decrease parotid secretion, loss of gag reflex, sternocleidomastoid and trapezius paresis

60
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What are the nuclei associated with the parasympathetic nervous system?

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Visceral oculomotor (edinger-westphal) nucleus (CNIII)
Superior salivatory nucleus (CNVII)
Inferior salivatory nucleus (CNIX)
Dorsal vagal nucleus (CNX)

61
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Do cranial nerve nuclei contain both sensory and motor components?

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No, it is one or the other

62
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How many cranial nerve nuclei are in the brainstem?

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18 main ones

63
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Which nuclei are general somatic efferent?

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Oculomotor, trochlear, abducens, hypoglossal

64
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Which nuclei are special visceral efferent?

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motor nucleus of trigeminal, nucleus of facial nerve, nucleus ambiguus (parasympathetics to heart, laryngeal muscles)

65
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Which nuclei are general visceral efferent?

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accessory oculomotor nucleus (Edinger-Westphal), salivatory nuclei, dorsal vagal nucleus

66
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Which nuclei are general and special visceral afferent?

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Nuclei of the solitary tract, commissural nucleus of vagus, gustatory nucleus

67
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Which nuclei are general somatic afferent?

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principal sensory nucleus of the trigeminal nerve, spinal nucleus of trigeminal nerve, mesencephalic nucleus of trigeminal nerve

68
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Which nuclei are special somatic afferent nuclei?

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Cochlear and vestibular nuclei

69
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Where is the oculomotor nucleus?

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Superior aspect of the midbrain at the level of the superior colliculus, next to the cerebral aqueduct

70
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Where is the trochlear nucleus?

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Lower midbrain at the level of the inferior colliculus, lies anterior to the cerebral aqueduct

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Where is the abducens nucleus?

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in the lower pons, deep to the facial colliculus

72
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Where is the hypoglossal nucleus?

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Upper medulla, near the midline in the floor of the 4th ventricle

73
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What do the special visceral efferent nuclei supply?

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Skeletal muscle from the branchial arches

74
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Where is the motor nucleus of the trigeminal nerve?

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In the upper pons, dorsally, medial to the main sensory nucleus of the trigeminal nerve

75
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Where is the nucleus of the facial nerve?

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In the lower pontine tegmentum, anterolateral to the nucleus of the abducens nerve, fibres loop around abducens nucleus and form the facial colliculus

76
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Where is the nucleus ambiguus?

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In the medulla, deep in the reticular formation

77
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What is the nucleus ambiguus?

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A composite nucleus with fibres to glossopharyngeal, vagus and accessory

78
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Where is the Edinger-Westphal nucleus?

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In the midbrain

79
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What does the Edinger-Westphal nucleus do?

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Pupillary light reflex and accommodation (oculomotor parasympathetics)

80
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Where do the salivatory nuclei lie?

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In the dorsal part of the pons

81
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What does the superior salivary nucleus do?

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Sends fibres to facial nerve to innervate submandibular and salivary glands

82
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What does the inferior salivary nucleus do?

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Sends fibres to the glossopharyngeal nerve to innervate parotid gland

83
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Where does the dorsal/motor nucleus of the vagus nerve lie?

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It is a long nucleus that sits vertically in the medulla, deep to the vagal trigone

84
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What does the nucleus solitarius do? (solitary nucleus)

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Receives input from visceral sensations from vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves

85
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Which nerves synapse in the gustatory nucleus?

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Facial, glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves

86
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What does the mesencephalic nucleus of the trigeminal nerve do?

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Muscles of mastication

87
Q

How does an upper motor neuron hypoglossal paralysis differ to a lower deficit?

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Upper: tongue deviates to opposite side, mild weakness
Lower: tongue deviates to side of lesion, atrophy, fasciculation
(left sides tongue muscle contraction causes right sided tongue movement, genioglossus only receives info from contralateral cerebral cortex)

Human Anatomy MSc Sheffield - Head and Neck (11 decks)

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