cranial nerves

Question 1

Olfactory

Answer 1

Enables sense of smell

Sensory

Question 2

Optic nerve

Answer 2

enables vision

sensory

Question 3

Oculomotor nerve

Answer 3

Supplies 5 eye muscles that allow for eye movement in most directions

Motor

Damage: causes double vision and trouble focusing on objects

Question 4

Trochlear nerve

Answer 4

Controls downward eye movements

Motor

Damage: causes double vision

Question 5

Trigeminal nerve

Answer 5

Sends temp, pain, touch sensations from face to brain

mixed

Damage: causes lots of pain and twitches

Question 6

Abducens nerve

Answer 6

Supplies 1 of the eye muscles and allows horizontal eye movements

Motor

Question 7

Facial nerve

Answer 7

Movement of facial muscles, involved with taste and crying

mixed

Damage: partial loss of taste, eyelid droops, mouth sagging, hard to speak or ingest

Question 8

Vestibulocochlear nerve

Answer 8

hearing and balance

sensory

Question 9

Glossopharyngeal nerve

Answer 9

Enables swallowing and saliva

mixed

Damage: impairment in swallowing and taste

Question 10

Vagus nerve

Answer 10

Allows digestion, swallowing, involved with parasympathetic nervous system and getting out of fight or flight mode

mixed

Damage: voice loss, difficulty swallowing

Question 11

Hypoglossal nerve

Answer 11

Controls tongue

Motor

Damage: hard to speak or swallow, unable to stick out tongue, or will move to one side

Question 12

Accessory Nerve

Answer 12

Head, neck, shoulder movement

Damage: causes head to move towards injury, paralysis of specific muscles, hard to shrug your shoulders

Motor