Neuro

Question 1

Lateral geniculate

Answer 1

Visual

Question 2

Medial geniculate

Answer 2

Auditory

Question 3

Ventral Posterior Lateral

Answer 3

Proprioception, pressure, touch, vibration for body

Question 4

Ventral posterior medial

Answer 4

Facial sensation (INCLUDING PAIN)

Question 5

Ventral anterior/lateral

Answer 5

Motor

Question 6

Ventromedial nucleus

Answer 6

Satiety (hyperphagia with bilateral destruction)

Question 7

Lateral Nucleus

Answer 7

Hunger center (starvation with destruction)

Question 8

Septal Nucleus

Answer 8

Aggression

Question 9

Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Answer 9

Circadian rhythms

Question 10

Supraoptic nucleus

Answer 10

Water balance

Question 11

Superior Salivary nucleus: Location and function?

Answer 11

BS. CN VII, Salivation in the submandibular and sublingual glands

Question 12

Inferior salivary nucleus: Location and function?

Answer 12

BS. CN IX, salivation in the parotid gland

Question 13

Nucleus of the solitary tract: Location? Function? CNs?

Answer 13

Brainstem, taste from X, IX and VII

Question 14

Which CNs are sensory and motor?

Answer 14

V, VII, IX, X

Question 15

What is the Edinger-Westphal nucleus?

Answer 15

Nucleus of CN3 involved with accommodation, miosis and convergence. It is GVE

Question 16

What is the mesencephalic nucleus associated with? Which CN?

Answer 16

With proprioception of the face. CN V

Question 17

Inferior petrosal ganglion

Answer 17

Taste to posterior 1/3 of tongue and baro/chemoreceptors

Question 18

Nucleus Ambiguus

Answer 18

Motor nucleus for swallowing. Stylopharyngeous is innervated by CN IX and pharyngeal constrictors, palatopharyngeus, levator palatini, palatoglossus etc. from CN X

Question 19

CN III lesions? CN VI lesion?

Answer 19

Dilated pupil and drooping eyelid. Eye perpetually directed toward nose.

Question 20

Touch and Pressure Nucleus, tract and processing in the face vs body

Answer 20

Face: Trigeminal main sensory nucleus, Dorsal trigeminothalamic tract and VPM

Body: Gracile and cuneate nuclei (dorsal columns), medial lemniscus and VPL for processing

Question 21

Pain and temperature Nucleus, tract and processing in the face vs body

Answer 21

Face: Spinal trigeminal nucleus, ventral trigeminothalamic tract, VPM periaqueductal grey matter and reticular formation

Body: DRG, Lissauer’s tract/spinothalamic tract, VPL PAGM and RF

Question 22

Proprioception Nucleus, tract and processing in the face vs body

Answer 22

Face: Mesencephalic nucleus, spinocerebellar tract, cerebellum

Body: Clark’s nucleus, spinocerebellar tract, cerebellum