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RE: Stanley Kubrick's Frog, Awesome Exhibit Of The Entire Human Nervous System & Super Cute Shrews
Learning neuroanatomy and the nerves of PNS was one of the most painful parts of phase 1 med school... this being said it comes up far more often than one would suspect in actual practice!
If you want to see something cool, notice how on the nervous system image above there appear to be two arems each side! If you go to the tips of those two arms you can actually see the nervous supply to the fingers branching off each. This is because there are three distinct and rather large parent nerves which branch off to supply just the hands. One of the reasons it hurts in your fingers when you hit your funny bone OR when you get carpel tunnel OR if you shatter your ulna and decimate your radial n. (Okay maybe the last one isn't so surprising!)
Oh and if you look below the brain, just above the first of those two arms there are some long but thick nerves too! These form a plexus in the upper chest before going BACK into the face and controlling some of the actions of the eye.
Its the reason you can sometimes (albiet rarely) diagnose a type of lung cancer (called a pancoast tumor) just by looking at someones face!
that was one of the most informational comments I had like.. forever! Thanks :D
Haha, no problems mate. Just sharing the awesomeness :)