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Brain Stem Brain Stem • Brain stem: • consists of medulla oblongata, pons, and midbrain. Medulla • Medulla oblongata (Medulla) • continues with spinal cord. The junction between spinal cord and medulla is the upper rootlet of the first cervical nerve. Junction between pons and medulla is an imaginary transverse line that passes the middle cerebellar peduncles. • Eminences • Anterior – Pyramind: consists corticospinal fibers. – Olive: oval swelling that marks the position of olivary nucleus. • Posterior – Gracile and Cuneate tubercles: elevations, indicates the continued gracile and cuneate fasciculi – Obex: apex of the V shaped boundary of fourth ventricle. Cranial Nerves • Abducens nerve: near the midline between the pons and medulla • Facial nerve: caudal border of the pons, laterally. Has sensory and motor roots. • Vestibulocochlear nerve: more laterally to the facial N • Glossopharngeal and vagus: between olive and the tuberculum cinereum • hypoglossal nerve: between pyramid and the olive Pons • Has basal (ventral) and dorsal portions. • Basal portion (ventral): basilar sulcus trigeminal nerve: has sensory and motor (smaller) roots. Trigeminal N is terminated by three branches: 1). Ophthalmic 2). Maxillary 3). Mandibular Pons • Dorsal portion: – also called tegmentum of the pons – Formed by the floor of fourth ventricle Midbrain • Ventral side: – basis pedunculi (including corticospinal, corticobulbar, and corticopontine fibers) interpeduncular fossa: depression in between these two pedunculi – In the fossa, many blood vessels penetrate through (posterior perfoated substance). Oculomotor nerve also emerges from here. • Lateral surface: – cerebral peduncles Midbrain • Dorsal surface: – superior colliculi (colliculus) part of the vision pathway, control visual movement – inferior colliculi (both paired), part of the auditory pathway – inferior brachium: connects inferior colliculi with thalamic nuclei for hearing – superior brachium: connects cerebral cortex and retina with superior colliculi for vision • trochlear nerve: emerges caudal to the inferior colliculi Fourth ventricle • diamond shaped, produce CSF, median and lateral apertures