Eye Muscles
The cranial nerves implicated in the visual system
What is the CN2 (optic nerve), CN3 (oculomotor nerve) and CN4 (trochlear nerve), C6 (abducens nerve)?
Where fibers carrying information of the outer visual field decussate
What is the optic chiasm?
Projects to the superior colliculus and pulvinar of the thalamus and responsible for unconscious seeing
What is the extrageniculate pathway?
The cranial nerve responsible for moving the eye inward
What is the oculomotor nerve?
Inability to recognize an object by sight but is able to copy or draw the object
What is associative visual agnosia?
The eye muscle that the abducens nerve innervates
What is the lateral rectus?
Damage to this optic radiation can cause an inferior quadrantanopia or "pie on the floor"
What is Baums loop?
The three key symptoms associated with Balint's syndrome
What is visual simultanagnosia, optic ataxia, and ocular apraxia?
Dysfunction in this cranial nerve can cause vertical diplopia
What is the trochlear nerve?
Syndrome associated with a lesion to bilateral inferior occipitotemporal cortex
What is prosopagnosia?