Orientation

Time, person, and place

Attention/concentration

Serial 7s

Spelling “world” backward

Memory

Remote and recent memory

New learning ability with three objects

Mood

“How are you feeling?”

Insight/judgment

“Why are you in the hospital?”

Speech/language

Rate, articulation, fluency, naming, word comprehension, repetition, writing, and reading

Higher cognitive functions

Calculations, abstract thinking, and drawing a clock

No.

Cranial nerve

Function

I

Olfactory

Sense of smell

II

Optic

Vision

III

Oculomotor

Pupillary constriction, opening the eye, and most extraocular movements

IV

Trochlear

Downward, inward movement of the eye

V

Trigeminal

Motor – temporal and masseter muscles (jaw clenching); also lateral movement of the jaw Sensory – facial. The nerve has three divisions: (1) ophthalmic, (2) maxillary, and (3) mandibular

VI

Abducens

Lateral deviation of the eye

VII

Facial

Motor – facial movements, including those of facial expression, closing the eye, and closing the mouth

Sensory – taste for salty, sweet, sour, and bitter substances on the anterior two-thirds of the tongue

VIII

Acoustic

Hearing (cochlear division) and balance (vestibular division)

IX

Glossopharyngeal

Motor – pharynx

Sensory – posterior portions of the eardrum and ear canal, the pharynx, and the posterior tongue, including taste (salty, sweet, sour, and bitter)

X

Vagus

Motor – palate, pharynx, and larynx

Sensory – pharynx and larynx

XI

Spinal accessory

Motor – the sternocleidomastoid and upper portion of the trapezius

XII

Hypoglossal

Motor – tongue