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The nerve fibers of solitary tract?

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Serve as the afferent limb of a variety of reflexes including those that modulate cardiac and respiratory function

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What nucleus receives all taste input?

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Dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus

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What is not a part of the auditory pathway?

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Superior Colliculus

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What is the receptor organ for dynamic equilibrium>

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Christa

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The functional component of parasympathetic neurons is?

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GVE

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Identify the ascending pathway for the conscious awareness of pain originating from the eyebrow

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Opthalamic nerve ->Trigeminal ganglion -> Spinal trigeminal nucleus -> primary sensory area

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Ascending fibers of the medial longitudinal fascicles (MLF) end in the?

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Oculomotor nuclei

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Which pair of nerves innervate the tensor tympani and stapedius muscles?

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Trigeminal and facial

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Where is the spiral organ of corti located?

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Cochlear duct

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Which cranial nerve does not have parasympathetic component?

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Vestibulocochlear

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Which three nerves go together?

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Facial, Vagus, glossopharyngeal

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Which bundle of here fibers contains the central branches of the primary sensory neurons that provide for general sensation (not taste) from the posterior third of the tongue?

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Spinal trigeminal tract

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Which statement is true?

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Crossing of ascending fibers at more than one level provides exclusive representation of the contralateral cochlea in the primary auditory cortex

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Which is involved in the pupillary light reflex?

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Cilliary ganglion

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How many functional components are in the brainstem?

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7

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What is the fluid inside of scala media?

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Endolymph

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Which functional component do the trochlear, oculomotor, and hypoglossal nerves have in common?

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GSE

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Where are the motor neurons that innervate the larynx and pharynx located?

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Nucleus ambiguus

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Which is the major decussation of the auditory pathway?

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Trapezoid body/fibers

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The cochlear nuclei

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receive afferents from the spiral ganglion

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Where might a lesion cause a loss of taste?

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Solitary tact and nucleus

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What muscle is supplied by the sixth cranial nerve?

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Lateral rectus

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Which cranial nerve carries taste sensation from the back of the throat, including the epiglottis?

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Vagus

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Which group of nerves contain the special visceral afferent functional component?

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Facial, olfactory, vagus

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What gyrus is the auditory cortex?
Transverse temporal
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Which brand of the trigeminal nerve carries motor fibers?
Mandibular
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Olfactory epithelia contain which type of cells?
Bipolar cells
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Olfactory glomeruli receptor axons synapse where?
Olfactory bulb
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Olfactory tract contain what type of cells?
Mitral cell axons
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You shine a light in the right eye but the left pupil does not respond. Which nerve is damaged?
Left oculomotor nerve
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You shine a light in the right eye, no contraction, the left eye contracts. Which nerve is damaged?
Right oculomotor (transection of right oculomotor
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Corneal blink reflex involves?
CNV (afferent) and CNVII (efferent)
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The fovea contains which type of cells?
Cones
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Olfactory cell axons are made of which type of cells?
Mitral cells
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What olfactory striae is contralateral?
Medila
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A lesion to what area will cause a loss in taste?
Nucleus solitaris
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What olfactory striae is involved in conscious perception of smell?
Intermediate olfactory striae
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The most important crossover in the auditory pathway is?
Trapezoid body
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What is the primary auditory cortex?
Transverse temporal gyrus
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When looking to the right you activate?
Right abducens, left oculomotor
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Where do olfactory cells cross?
Anterior commissure
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Some mitral cell axons cross at?
Anterior commissure
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What innervates muscles of mastication?
Trigeminal
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Where do ganglion cells not terminate?
Visual cortex
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Which is not made by the anterior pituitary?
Oxytocin
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The medial and lateral hypothalamus is separated by
Fornix
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Olfactory nerve body
bulb
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Olfactory glomeruli contain fibers from all except
Granule cells
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These neurons are replaced about every 2 months
Olfactory
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Which olfactory striae response is for odor perception?
Medial
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Hallucination?
Parahippocampal gyrus
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The hypothalamus is associated w/ ?
Endocrine Limbic ANS
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Circuit for explained emotion is ___ and is involved with the limbic system
Papez circuit
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The fornix goes from ____ to _____
Hippocampus to mammillary bodies
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Vasopressin released in capillaries with in neurohypophysis is produced by?
Neurons projecting to the posterior pituitary gland
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Cold/warm water in ears
Semicircular canal
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Which nerves involve SVA
I,VII,X
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An example of photoreceptors are?
Rods
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Which is not true o the nerves of solitary tract?
Go to anterior 1/3 of tongue for taste
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What is the sensory organ for dynamic equilibrium?
Cristae
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The hypoglossal nerve is?
Motor
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Run into a tree?
Utricle Saccule, Both
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72 year old w/ history of CVD has sudden onset confusion which her left arm and leg become weak.
Right internal capsule
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Which nucleus receives afferent fibers from verbal hearing in left ear?
Superior olivary nucleus
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Cerebral peduncle does not contain which of the following?
Superior colliculus
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Which functional component is associated with vestibulocochlear nerve?
Specific somatic afferents
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V3 of trigeminal is?
Mostly motor
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The hypoglossal nerve
Has nothing to do with taste, only motor
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The glossopharyngeal nerve
Motor nucleus/nucleus ambiguous
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Descending tract
Corticospinal tract, reticulospinal tract, vestibulospinal tract, raphospinal tract
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Where are alpha motor neurons found?
Gray matter of spinal cord
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What functional component do cranial nerve 3,6,and12 share?
GSE
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Which is not a direct target of axon cells?
Visual cortex
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The hyoglossus innervate?
Hypoglossal nerve
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Orger of ascending pathway of conscious awareness?
Ophthalmic, trigeminal, spinal trigeminal, and primary sensory area
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Which is true?
Many crossover = exact hearing
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What is a tract?
Bundle of nerve fibers in CNS
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What flexure forms the rhomboid fossa?
Pontine
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Which CN exits between the olive and the pyramid?
Hypoglossal
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Which cranial never makes the border between the basilar pons and the middle cerebral peduncle?
CN5
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Which of the following cranial nerve is attached to the midbrain?
Oculomotor
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The spinal lemniscus is concerned with ____ functional component?
GSA
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____ is the interneuron nucleus for vertical gaze control
Accessory Oculomotor
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The fixation and smooth pursuit movements of the eyeball are largely ___ and the pathway originates the ____
Involunatry/superior colliculs
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The GVE preganglionic neuron that supply the heart are located in the ____ nucleus
Dorsal motor nucleus of vagus
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Which of the following nerves has an autonomic component?
Oculomotor
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Which of the following structure is the source of GVE preganglionic parasympathetic innervation to the otic ganglion?
Inferior salivary nucleus
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The ____ nucleus is necessary for the pupillary reflex?
Pretectal
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The ALS is concerned w/?
GSA
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The functional component associated with the cell bodies located in visceromotor ganglia is?
GVE
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Which CN has four nuclei in the brain?
Vestibulocochlear
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When the ___ is injured or destroyed the ipsilateral eye can't adduct when the contralateral eye abducts in the lateral gaze examination
Brachium of superior colliculus
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Damage to the occipital lobe would most likely cause
Loss of vision
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Concentration in the fovea
COnes
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What is sensory organ for dynamic equilibrium
Cristae
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Hypoglossal nerve
Motor
97
Taste on epiglottis
Vagus

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