Cranial Nerves 1-8
Trigeminal Nerve (Cranial Nerve 5)
Both motor & Sensory; head & Face; mild stimulus; trigeminal neuralgia: severe pain in face
Trochlear Nerve (Cranial Nerve 4)
Eye Movement (Motor); Opening
Oculomotor Nerve (Cranial Nerve 3)
Eye Movement (motor)
Abducens Nerve (Cranial Nerve 6)
Eye Movement (motor); Lateral movement
Facial Nerve (Cranial Nerve 7)
Facial Movements (motor); facial expressions; testing for taste
Vestibule Copulo Nerve (Auditory Vestibular) (Cranial Nerve 8)
Hearing (sensory); vestibular apparatus: IMPORTANT for balance! Computes how your body moves in a 3D space.
Olfactory Nerve (Cranial Nerve 1)
Smell (sensory); Cerebral Plate; Form the olfactory tract
Optic Nerve (Cranial Nerve 2)
Vision (sensory); axons of ganglia cells located on the surface of the retina; Blind Spot: No rods on Eye