Re: [HAPS-L] Cranial nerves and memes

[Elizabeth E Hodgson <ehodgson@xxxxxxx>]

Great mnemonic (not pneumonic)!!  I'll add it to my list that I give.

Elizabeth Hodgson, MS
NMT Coordinator
York College of PA
717.815.1530


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>Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:42:48 -0400
>From: Ken Saladin <ksaladin@xxxxxxxxxx>  
>Subject: [HAPS-L] Cranial nerves and memes  
>To: HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>Years ago, I challenged my class with a contest to come up with the best 
>cranial nerve mnemonic to replace "On old Olympus' towering tops...."  One 
>of my students came up with the one I've used ever since in my textbooks, 
>"OLd OPie OCcasionally TRies TRIGonometry, And Feels VEry GLOomy, VAGue, 
>And HYPOactive" (which, for most cranial nerves, gives two to four of the 
>initial letters, per my caps). The student, Marti Haykin, subsequently went 
>to medical school and has become, of all things, a neurologist in Pittsburgh.
>
>I was checking on her and the status of Old Opie today, and found this 
>Wikipedia page listing numerous cranial nerve mnemonics -- some of them 
>obscene (of course!) and many of them lame, but whoever wrote the article 
>put Old Opie at the top of the list.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_nerves
>
>Googling "Old Opie" brings up a lot of false positives -- references to the 
>Opie & Anthony radio show, for example -- but adding a word ("Old Opie 
>occasionally") pulls up several hits to the mnemonic, which appears to be 
>spreading as a Dawkinsian meme.
>
>I find it sad, though, that so many health-science students AND INSTRUCTORS 
>call such memory aids "pneumonics," as if they were some sort of lung 
>disease. I've seen them called that right here on HAPS-L. If that's the 
>right word for them, it's pneus to me!
>
>
>Ken
>
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