Objective: To understand the organization of cranial nerves with respect to their nuclei within the brain, their course through and exit from the brain, and their functional roles.

Cranial Nerves tely identified while studying brain anatomy. The 12 pairs of cra ial nerves primarily serve the head and neck. Only one pair, the vagus nerves, ext nds into the thoracic and abdominal …

Abstract This article – the fourth in a series about the nervous system – examines the peripheral nervous system, which is made up of nerves that connect the central nervous system to the rest of …

Motor nerves act as nerves which carry information out from the CNS, as opposed to sensory nerves, which send signals from sensory receptors in the periphery to the CNS.

The cortex (thin layer of tissue) is gray because nerves in this area lack the insulation or white fatty myelin sheath that makes most other parts of the brain appear to be white.

Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) The PNS consists of all nervous tissue outside the central nervous system (CNS), including cranial nerves, spinal nerves, and ganglia.

These diagramswereoriginallypublished in 1860. Theyweredesignedbytheauthorwhile engaged in teachinganatomy at the Medical Schoolattached to the Middlesex Hospital.