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Face muscles: large muscle groups' cranial innervation

Mandibular nerve: Mastication.
Facial nerve: Facial expression.
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Broca's vs. Wernick's area: effect of damage to speech center

"Broca": your speech machinery is Broken.
· Broca is wanting to speak, but articulation doesn't work, and very slow.
"Wer-nick": "were" and "nick" are both words of English language, but together they are nonsensical.
· Wernick is having good articulation, but saying words that don't make sense together.
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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin

Argyll-Robertson Pupil features

Look at the math signs around the two parts of the name: A-R.
The A has no sign in front, which in math means +A (+ Accommodate).
There is a subtract sign in front of the R (- React).
Therefore, pupil can accommodate, but can't react.
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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin

Optic chiasma: what it looks like if you're a genetics star

The optic chiasma looks the same as a chiasma in meiosis, making it easy to spot on the dissected brain.

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Pupils in overdose: morphine vs. amphetamine

"MorPHINE: Fine. AmPHETamine: Fat":
Morphine overdose: pupils constricted (fine).
Amphetamine overdose: pupils dilated (fat).
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Cerebellar damage symptoms

VANISHED:
Vertigo
Ataxia
Nystagmus
Intention tremor
Slurred (or Staccato) speech
Exagerrated broad based gait
Hypotonic reflexes
Dysdiadochokinesia.
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---Nawal Bahal King's College, London

Balance organs

Utricle and Saccule keep US balanced.
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Optic atrophy causes

ICING:
Ischaemia
Compressed nerve
Intracranial pressure [raised]
Neuritis history
Glaucoma
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Schizophrenia: negative features

4 A's:
Ambivalence
Affective incongruence
Associative loosening
Autism
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Hypothalamus: feeding vs.satiety center

"Late night snack":
LATEral is snacking [feeding] center.
Therefore, ventromedial is satiety center.
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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin