Neurons, Cranial Nerves, Divisions of NS, Action Potentials

Nerve associated with sense of smell

• Facial

• Optic

• Olfactory

• abducens

Numbed by the dentist when getting a cavity filled in your lower jaw

• Trochlear

• Trigeminal

• Facial

• Vagus

conducts impulses to the muscles of the neck and back

• vagus

• accessory

• Glossopharyngeal

• Abducens

responsible for balance

• Vagus

• Accessory

• Trochlear

• Vestibulocochlear

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Nerve used in swallowing

• Trigeminal

• Trochlear

• Glossopharyngeal

• vagus

Helps focus the lens in the eye and control the amount of light entering the eye.

• Oculomotor

• Trigeminal

• Trochlear

• Facial

Responsible for hearing

• optic

• vestibulocochlear

• olfactory

• Trigeminal

controls heart rate

• vagus

• trigeminal

• abducens

• optic

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Sight

• olfactory

• optic

• trigeminal

• vagus

Motor fibers to the face, causes facial expressions

• Trigeminal

• facial

• optic

• abducens