Testing cranial nerve VII: It is all in the wording

During our practice of clinical neurological examination we frequently observed that patients, upon testing of cranial nerve VII, when instructed to “wrinkle their forehead” (to evaluate the innervation of the M. frontalis), seem to falsely “frown” (i.e. innervate the corrugator supercilii). Here, w...

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Main Authors: Caroline Freilinger, Eva Auffenberg, Christina Lipski, Tobias Freilinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-03-01
Series:eNeurologicalSci
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240565021630003X