Neuropsychological Assessment Flashcards
Olfactory Nerve
Sense of smell.
Test by getting patient to close their eyes and test if they can recognize common objects by smell.
i.e. an orange
Optic Nerve
Visual Acuity.
Test by eye chart test
20/20 implies you can see at 20 feet what others can see at 20 feet
Ocularmotor Nerve
Main nerve responsible for lateral motor movement in eye.
Test by moving finger around
Trocheal Nerve
Responsible for vertical motor movement in eye.
Test by moving finger around
Trimingeal Nerve
Responsible for facial sensation.
Opthalmic Nerve
Maxillary Nerve
Mandibular Nerve
Test by clenching jaw and feeling face
Abducens Nerve
Motor movement of eye
Test by moving fingers around
Facial Nerve
Motor movement of face (facial expressions)
Test by making person perform various facial expressions
Auditory Vestibular Nerve
Controls our sense of hearing
Test doing prinne test
Prinne Test
Use a tuning stick at neck and ear to test and ask if a person where it is louder. A normal person should find it louder at the ear
Glossopharyngeal Nerve
Controls sensation of top of mouth (gag reflex)
Guess how you test it ;)
Vagus Nerve
Controls pharynx as well as many other things such as digestion, heart rate, and breathing.
Test by asking person to speak
Spinal Accessory Nerve
Controls motor movement in sternocleidomastoid and traps
Test by placing hand on person’s face and get them to resist force applied
Hypoglossal Nerve
Controls motor control of tongue
Test by getting person to stick out tongue. If it deviates, to either side then it suggests weakening of the muscle
Cerebral Angiogram
Diagnostic procedure that gives images of blood vessels and cranial nerves in the neck and head
When do you use neurological assessment?
When a closed head traumatic brain injury has occurred
