Links & References - Websites

 

  1. Gives a good general overview to help you get a grasp of the basics.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_nerves
     
  2. A good website to test your knowledge with a number of interactive quizzes.
    Has an excellent diagram to help familiarise yourself with the anatomy of the nerves in the brain.
    https://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/cn/cranial.htm
     
  3. A fun website to visit as it has plenty of animations and is really interactive.
    It covers the many of the key points such as anatomy and function but doesn’t provide a great amount of detail.
    https://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=AP11504
     
  4. The most detailed of the websites and gives a deeper insight into the cranial nerves.
    Provides more information regarding nerve routes and the resulting relationship with function.
    https://www.med.yale.edu/caim/cnerves/contents.html

Links & References - Literature

 

  1. Principles of Anatomy & Physiology
    Written by Tortora & Grabowski
    Published by Wiley
    Particularly good are pages 477 - 490. 
  2. The Human Brain – An Introduction to its Functional Anatomy
    Written by John Nolte
    Published by Mosby / Elsevier
     
  3. Nervus Terminalus (Cranial Nerve Zero)
    Written by Fuller GN & Burger PC
    PMID: 2286018
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2286018

 

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Fun Fact

 

The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.

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