Nuclei
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Brainstem
Get Out of My Hole
Neuro Before and After
100

This nucleus, located in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord from C8 to L2, is essential for transmitting unconscious proprioceptive information from the lower limbs to the cerebellum

What is Clarke's nucleus?

100

Damage to the primary motor cortex will cause weakness in this side of the body

What is contralateral?

100

This midbrain structure is where auditory information travels before going to the primary auditory cortex.

What is the inferior colliculus?

100
Hypoglossal Canal (1 Nerve)

What is the hypoglossal nerve?

100

This condiment is used in the relay station of the brain.

What is thalamustard?

200

This nucleus is responsible for taste to the entire tongue and epiglottis

What is the nucleus tractus solitarius?

200

In a CN XII lesion, the tongue will deviate in this direction.

What is ipsilateral?

200

This artery supplies the lateral medulla.

What is the PICA?

200

Cavernous Sinus (5 nerves, 1 vessel)

What are the CN III, IV, V1, V2, VI, and the internal carotid artery?

200

This baseball stadium in Boston develops a neurodegenerative disorder due to loss of cells in the substantia nigra.

What is Fenway Parkinson Disease?

300

This hypothalamic nucleus acts as the body's master clock, regulating circadian rhythms by responding to light cues from the retina.

What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus

300

Innervation to the upper face from CN VII is ______

What is bilateral?

300

This cerebellar peduncle delivers proprioceptive information from the spinal cord.

What is the inferior cerebellar peduncle?

300

Foramen Spinosum (1 vessel)

What is the middle meningeal artery?

300

The maxillary branch of the trigeminal nerve travels through this skull hole while playing a board game where you drop plastic tokens into vertical slots

What is Connect Foramen Rotundum?

400

These thalamic nuclei are involved in arousal and alertness.

What are the intralaminar nuclei?

400

A 69 year old man is stabbed in the side of his cerebellum with an ice pick. He will have ataxia on this side.

What is the ipsilateral side?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

These are the 3 sensory nuclei that supply CN V.

400

Foramen Magnum (5 vessels, 3 nervous structures)

What are the vertebral arteries (R+L), ASA, PSA (2), spinal cord, and accessory nerves?

400

This disrespectful action in Call of Duty involves straddling someone's dead body and explaining to them where vibratory sound waves are converted to electrical impulses.

What is The Organ of Corti-bagging?

500

This nucleus of the amygdala receives input related to emotions and sends information to the central nucleus.

What is the basolateral nucleus?

500

Lesions to the Medial Longitudinal Fasciculus (MLF) will cause nystagmus in this eye.

What is contralateral?

500

This structure can be found in the rostral midbrain between the Periaqueductal gray and the Substantia Nigra. It is involved in extrapyramidal muscle control.

What is the red nucleus?

500
Foramen Ovale (2 Nerves)

What are the mandibular nerve (V3) and lesser petrosal nerve (IX)

500

A potent organophosphate acetylcholinesterase inhibitor made from the only cranial nerve that is myelinated by oligodendrocytes.

What is optic nerve gas?