A Review of Facial Nerve Anatomy Terence M. Myckatyn‚ M.D.1 and Susan E. Mackinnon‚ M.D.1 ABSTRACT An intimate knowledge of facial nerve anatomy is critical to avoid its inadvertent injury during rhytidectomy‚ parotidectomy‚ maxillofacial fracture reduction‚ and almost any surgery of the head and neck. Injury to the frontal and marginal mandibular branches of the facial nerve in particular can lead to obvious clinical deficits‚ and areas where these nerves are particularly susceptible to injury
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Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses Activity 1: The Resting Membrane Potential 1. Explain why increasing extracellular K+ reduces the net diffusion of K+ out of the neuron through the K+ leak channels. Increasing the extracellular K+ causes the membrane potential to change to a less negative value because when K+ ions diffuse out across the membrane they are leaving behind a net negative charge. 2. Explain why increasing extracellular K+ causes the membrane potential to change to a less
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main factor that leads to the damage of optic nerve is elevated pressure in the eye. The optic nerve is the main visual nerve of the eye. It transmits the images we see back to the brain for interpretation. The shape and tone of the eye is maintained by a pressure within the eye‚ which ranges between 8 mm and 22 mm of mercury. When this pressure is too low‚ the eye becomes softer‚ while an elevated pressure causes the eye to become harder. The optic nerve is the most susceptible part of the eye to high
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Neurophysiology has been a subject of study since as early as 4‚000 B.C. In the early B.C. years‚ most studies were of different natural sedatives like alcohol and poppy plants. In 1700 B.C.‚ the Edwin Smith surgical papyrus was written. This papyrus was crucial in understanding how the ancient Egyptians understood the nervous system. This papyrus looked at different case studies about injuries to different parts of the body‚ most notably the head. Beginning around 460 B.C.‚ Hippocrates began
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**protects against protrusive interferences Wilson—translateral curve lingual inclination of mand posteriors **protects against lateral interferences Interarch— arch length: max and mand arches the same arch width: max slightly > mand Centric cusps—i.e. functional cusps: mand=buccal max=lingual fnxn: vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO) support of facial height aligned with opposing for mastication Non-centric cusps—i.e. non-functional
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Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses ACTIVITY 1: The Resting Membrane Potential Answers 1. The nervous system contains two general types of cells: neuroglia cells and a. nerves. b. cell bodies. c. neurons. d. nephrons. 2. The resting membrane potential of the neuron in this lab under the control conditions was _______ mV. 3. True or False: For most neurons‚ the concentration of Na+ and K+ ions inside and outside the cell are the primary factors that determine the resting membrane potential. 4. Explain
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Smith BIOL 3810-504 Compound Action Potentials Date Performed: 15FEB2011 Date Due: 01MAR2011 Introduction Neurons are the cells that receive and transmit electrical signals (University of North Texas‚ 2010). The ability of the neuron to conduct these impulses is because of an electrochemical voltage across the plasma membrane of that neuron. An action potential is an all or nothing response to a stimulus along a single axon. A compound action potential is a graded response that results
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Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses Worksheet Assignment Due: Week 4 Eliciting a Nerve Impulse Activity 1: Electrical Stimulation 1. Do you see any kind of response on the oscilloscope screen? No 2. What was the threshold voltage‚ or the voltage at which you first saw an action potential? The threshold voltage is at 3.0 V. 3. How does this tracing compare to the one that was generated at the threshold voltage? There was a slight increase. 4. What reason can you give for the change
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CRANIAL NERVE EXAMINATION DIAGNOSTICS (EMCO4Y2) MR B. VAN NUGTEREN 23 JULY 2015 RYNHARDT RADEMAN 201403200 TABLE OF CONTENTS • Introduction and how to perform the cranial nerve assessment Pg 2 • Olfactory and optic nerves Pg 3 • Oculomotor nerves Pg 4 • Trigeminal and facial nerves
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sciatic nerve‚ speed of transmission and degree of myelination can all have an effect on the sciatic nerve and therefore the peak contractile force of B. Marinus. The diameter of the axon in the sciatic nerve would impact how fast the action potential is conceived down the axon to the synaptic cleft and muscle (Firmin‚ L. 2014). If one of the toads had a smaller axon diameter it would allow for resistance to movement to occur due to friction. The diameter of the axon in the sciatic nerve would therefore
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