Cranial Nerves
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What is the optic nerve?
Damage to this cranial nerve causes impaired smelling
What is the olfactory nerve?
The three meninges of the brain
These neuroglia cells phagocytize cellular debris.
What are microglia?
This brings sensory information away from the brain.
What is a motor neuron?
Cranial Nerve VIII
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
Damage to this cranial nerve causes sagging facial muscles
The lobe of the brain most concerned with vision
What is the occipital lobe?
What are ependymal cells?
This type of nerve conducts signals fastest.
What is a large myelinated neuron?
Cranial Nerve X
What is the Vagus Nerve?
Damage to this cranial nerve causes a disturbed sense of taste and difficulty swallowing
What is the glossopharyngeal nerve?
This lobe of the brain recieves and processes sensory information.
What is the parietal lobe?
This neuroglia myelinates in the PNS
What is a Schwann cell?
This is the period where there is absolutely no chance of another stimulation.
What is absolute refractory period?
Cranial Nerve VI
Abducens Nerve
Damage to these cranial nerves (2) causes double vision
What are the oculomotor nerve and the trochlear nerve?
This side of the brain contains abilities such as music, procedural memory, left motor functions.
What is the right hemisphere of the brain?
This neuroglia cell myelinates in the CNS
What is oligodendrocytes?
This type of summation is one neuron firing at very close range.
What is temporal summation?
What is the hypoglossal nerve?
Damage to this cranial nerve causes disturbed head, neck and shoulder movement.
What is the accessory nerve?
What is the medulla oblongata?
This is the tract that is usually shown in green, and that brings information back from the brain.
What is a descending tract?