Neuroanatomy — Flashcards

Flashcard 521: Which cranial nerves (4) carry parasympathetics? _____

Answer: III, VII, IX, X

Flashcard 522: Which tract is responsible for conveying unconscious proprioceptive information from the body to the cerebellum?

Answer: Spinocerebellar tract

Extra: The spinocerebellar tracts (including the dorsal and ventral tracts) are responsible for conveying unconscious proprioceptive information from the limbs and trunk to the cerebellum.

Flashcard 523: The _____ of the cerebellum is involved in control of balance and eye movements

Answer: flocculonodular lobe

Flashcard 524: What type of cranial nerve (motor, sensory, or both) is the glossopharyngeal nerve (CN IX)?_____

Answer: Both (motor and sensory)

Flashcard 525: What neural tract is responsible for the sympathetic input of the face? _____

Answer: Hypothalamospinal tract

Flashcard 526: What syndrome is associated with lesion of the following areas? _____1. Corticospinal tract2. Medial lemniscus3. Hypoglossal nerve (CN XII)

Answer: Medial medullary syndrome (Inferior alternating hemiplegia)

Flashcard 527: _____ circuit describes the neural circuit for emotional expression and includes the hippocampus, mammillary bodies, anterior thalamic nuclei, cingulate gyrus, and entorhinal cortex

Answer: Papez

Flashcard 528: Which CN III fibers (motor or parasympathetic) are affected first by compression? _____

Answer: Parasympathetics

Flashcard 529: Which sacral nerves carry parasympathetics? _____

Answer: S2 - S4

Flashcard 530: The 2nd-order neuron of the hypothalamospinal tract arises from the lateral horn of T1 and synapses on the _____

Answer: superior cervical ganglion