* Unlike other cranial nerves is sometimes included in the central nervous system, not the peripheral nervous system

Each cranial nerve is given a Roman numeral, together with whether they are motor, sensory or both, and their functions reported.  Some cranial nerves contribute to the same function.  An aid to remembering whether each cranial nerve is motor (M), sensory (S) or both (B) is the mnemonic “Some Say Money Mattars But My Brother Says Big Biceps Matter Most”.  Another mnemonic enables one to remember their order of emergence from cranial to more caudal through openings in the skull: “Oh Once One Takes The Anatomy Final Very Good Vacations Are Heavenly”.

See Auditory (or acoustic) nerve, Brain stem, Cochlear implant, Cochlear nucleus, Corticobulbar tract (CBT), Cranial nerves, Eye movements, Gustation, Neuronal migration disorders, Oculomotor nucleus, Olfaction, Optic nerve, Parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), Peripheral nervous system (PNS), Metencephalon, Otoliths, Pharyngeal arches, Vagus (or pneumogastric) nerve. Vestibular system