How Your Brain Works

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How Your Brain Works

• Aileen Staller, MSN, CNRN, OCN
• H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
• Neurosurgery

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The Brain is Like Real Estate

• All that matters is location, location and
  location !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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SYMPTOMS

• Symptoms depend on the area of the brain
  involved, not the disease.
• Brain tumors, strokes, head injuries can all
  present with the same symptoms because of the
  area of the brain involved.

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CT and MRI scans are used to determine what is
causing the symptoms.
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CRANIAL NERVES

• I Smell
• II Visual fields
• III Pupil, lid and eye movements
• IV Eye movement
• V Face sensation (TIC)
• VI Eye movement
• VII Face movement (Bells palsy)

• VIII Hearing, balance, equilibrium
• IX/ X Gag swallow plus lots more
• XI Scapula position, neck movement
• XII Tongue thrusting

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