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What are the extraoccular muscles?

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Muscles involved in eyemovement; Lateral Rectus (6); Superior Oblique (4); superior rectus, medial rectus, inferior rectus; inferior oblique (3)

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Which extraoccular muscles are innervated by the Abducens nerve?

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lateral rectus

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Which extraocculuar muscle is innervated by the Trochlear nerve?

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Superior oblique

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Which extraoccular muscles are innervated by CN III

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superior rectus, medial rectus, inferior rectus, inferior oblique

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Which fibre bundle is associated with communication between motor CN nuclei involved in gaze?

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Medial longitudinal fasciculus

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Where is the MLF at the level of the rostral pons?

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Where is the MLF at the level of the caudal pons?

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Where is the MLF at the level of the midbrain?

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Where is the vertical gaze centre?

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Midbrain - reticular formation and pretectal area

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Where is the horizontal gaze centre?

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Pons - paramedian pontine RF (PPRF)

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How many neurons are involved in directing the gaze to the right

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4 - 1) the horizontal gaze centre neurons synpapse on the abducens nucleus; IPSI CN VI terminates on the right lateral rectus (LR6); 3) another set of abducens neurons cross the midline and synapse at the OCCULOMOTOR nucleus; 4) occulomotor neurons innervate the ipsilateral medial rectus

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What would happen to gaze if there was a lesion to the RIGHT abducens nerve

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Ipsilateral (right) eye would fail to abduct when looking to the right; leftward gaze would be unaffected

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What is a reflexive saccade?

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Visually guided saccade in response to external cue (prosaccade)

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What is a volitional saccade

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voluntary eye movement

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What is the main input for voilutional saccades?

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Frontal eye fields in SMA (BA 8)

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What is the main input for reflexive saccades

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Superior colliculi (brainstem)

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Reflexive saccades recruit which structures?

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Frontal eye fields –> ipsi superior colliculus –> contralateral horizontal gaze centre –> abducens nucleus –> ipsi lateral rectus and contra occulomotor nucleus –> ipsi left medial rectus

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What is found in the DESCENDING MLF?

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Medial and lateral vestibulospinal tracts

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Which structures are involve in smooth pursuit?

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FEF and V1 –> ipsilateral pontine nuclei (cerebropontine) –> contralateral cerebellum –> ipsilateral vestibular nuclei –> contralateral abducens nucleus –> activation of ips CNVI and contra CN III via the MLF

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Which direction do eyes move in the VOR

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Opposite of the direction of head movement

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Which structures are involved in the VOR response to leftward head rotation?

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1) Left horizontal canal —> ipsi vestibular nuclei —> contra abducens nucleus —> ipsi CN VI and contra CN III via MLF and occulomotor nucleus

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Which muscles are involved in the pupillary reflex?

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Constrictor pupillae

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Which nuclei are involved in pupillary constriction

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1) Pretectal; 2) Edinger-Westphal (CN-III GVE)

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What are the first step involved in pupillary constriction?

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1) light reaches retina; info travels to pre-tectal nuclei in midbrain via optic nerve and optic tract (post-chiasm)

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What is the role of the pretectal nuclei in pupillary constriction?
Send bilateral projections to the edinger-westphal nuclei of CN III
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What is the role of the edinger-westphal nuclei in pupillary constriction
Send preganglionic efferents (GVEs) to the ciliary ganglia
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What happens at ciliary ganglia during pupil constriction?
Receive pre-ganglionic input from edinger-westphal nucleus; send post-ganglionic projections (ciliary nerves) to innervate constrictor pupillae muscles
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If parasympathetic fibres in the right CN III were damaged, what would happen when a light was shone into the right eye?
No pupillary constriction in right eye BUT left eye will still constrict; called "blown pupil"
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Which fibres cross the optic nerve?
Fibres from the NASAL (medial) half of each retina
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Which tract do fibres travel in on their way from the LGN to V1?
Optic radiation (geniculocalcarine tract)
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Which fibres form Meyer's loop?
More ventral fibres (representing info from the upper visual field)
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Where do tracts from the upper and lower visual field end up in the cortex
Lower portion of calcarine sulcus (upper); upper portion of calcarine sulcus (lower)
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Which portion of the visual field travels via Meyer's loop upon exiting the LGN?
Upper visual field ("bottom" of the retina)
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What is a homonymous visual field deficit?
One that affects both eyes in the **same part** of the visual field
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Monocular vision loss is due to a lesion to \_\_\_\_
Optic nerve
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A lesion to the optic chiasm causes \_\_\_\_
Loss of temporal vision in both visual fields -- bitemporal hemianopia
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A lesion to the optic tract causes \_\_\_\_
Loss of the contralateral visual field in BOTH eyes
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A lesion to Meyer loop causes \_\_\_\_
Upper portion of the contralateral visual field in both eyes
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A partial lesion to the optic radiations before they are joined by fibres from Meyer's loop \_\_\_
Loss of lower portion of contralateral visual field in both eyes
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A lesion of the entire V1 \_\_\_
Loss of the contralateral visual field on both sides
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Pupillodilator reflex begins where with which type of stimulus
Lateral horn neurons in T1 receive descending input (from e.g., the hypothalamus) in response to EMOTIONAL cues
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Where do preganglionic fibres travel after receiving descening input for the pupillodilator reflex
Leave SC; travel up sympathetic trunk to **superior cervical ganglion**
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Where do postganglionic neurons from the superior cervical ganglion go to intiate the pupillodilator reflex?
Travel along internal carotid and via the **opthalmic division of CN V**
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Which nerves innervate the dilator pupillae muscles
Long cilliary nerves (branch off of CN V-1 opthalmic)
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The corneal blink reflex is mediate by WHICH cranial nerve afferent
Trigeminal (V)
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Which brainstem nuclei are involved in the corneal nerve reflex
Trigeminal Sensory nucleus and facial motor nucleus
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Which muscle do fibres from the facial motor nucleus innervate to cause the blinking reflex
Orbicularis oculi
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Convergence of the eyes (close vengence point) involves WHICH muscles and associated motor nuclei?
Medial rectus; oculomotor nuclei
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Divergence of the eyes (far vengence point) requires WHICH muscles and assocaited motor nuclei
lateral rectus (abducens)
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Which area of the rostral midbrain is responsible for coordinating the accommodation reflex
Supraocculomotor Area
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Which processes occur during accomodation?
1) Convergence, 2) Pupillary constriction 3) Thickening of the lens
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Which brainstem nuclie does the supraocculomotor area activate to intiate accomodation
1) Oculomotor (activates the medial rectus muscles) 2) Edinger-westphal nucleus (para efferents innervate the ciliary ganglion)
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Afferent component of the pupillary light reflex
retinal info to pretectal area; pretectal to EW nucleus
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Efferent component of pupillary light reflex
CN III (occulomotor nerve) --\> ciliarly ganglion --\> ciliary nerves --\> iris constrictor muscles
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Afferent component of ACCOMODATION
retina (receptors and neuronal elements), optic nerves, optic chiasm, optic tracts, lateral geniculate bodies, geniculocalcarine tracts, visual cortex. Corticotectal projections to superior colliculus/pretectal area - then to **oculomotor nuclear complex.**
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Accomodation efferent component
CNIII nerve, ciliary ganglion, short ciliary nerves, ciliary muscle andconstrictor.•CNIII nerve, medial rectus muscle.
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Pupilodilator reflex afferent component
Afferent component - from posterior hypothalamus via brainstem. Reticular formation to preganglionic sympathetic neurons at C8 and T1. Information via sympathetic trunk to superior cervical ganglion.
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Pupilodilator reflex efferent component
Efferent component - postganglionic sympathetic fibers via nasociliary nerve (travels in opthalmic division of V-1), which gives off long ciliary nerves to dilator muscle of iris.
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Where are the trochlear (CN IV) nuclei
Caudal midbrain; anterior part of PAG
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What is in the DESCENDING MLF
Vestibulospinal tract
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What is in the ASCENDING MLF
Connects CN-IV with CN-III; also connect VIII (vestibular) to CN III, IV, and VI for the VOR
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