Location and Extent
The location of the pons on the brainstem
What is the middle part of the brainstem?
The location where the pons relay sensory information to
What is the cerebellum?
Preventative measures against having damaged pons
What are eating a balanced diet, being active, using safety equipment, and treating chronic conditions?
The anatomy that the pons control sensation and motor function for
What are the head and the neck?
The part of the brain above the pons
What is the midbrain?
What is coordinating facial movements, hearing, and balance?
The methods of assessing damage to the pons
What are eye movement, taste, and balance?
The part of the brain that the pons get information from
What is the motor cortex?
What is the cerebellum?
The unconscious processes that the pons handle
What are breathing and sleeping?
Symptoms of damage to the pons
What are lack of coordination, loss of hearing, touch, paralysis, double vision, vertigo, tinnitus, nystagmus, and nausea?
The type of information that enters the brain through the pons
The part of the brain below the pons
What is the medulla oblongata?
The anatomy that the pons link
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
The effects of extensive damage of the pons
What is paralysis of the entire body or locked-in syndrome?
The system that the pons control
What is the reticular activating system?
The length of the pons
What is 2.5 cm or 0.98 inches?
Three sensory roles of the pons
What are hearing, swallowing, chewing, equilibrium, eye moment, and secretion of saliva and tears?
The causes of damage to the pons
What are pontine strokes, brain tumors, small and large artery, neck injury, pressure, and abrupt movement that cuts off blood flow to the brain stem?
The number of cranial nerves that have a point of origin or termination at the pons
What is 4?