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61-year old male presents with inability to use his right hand/arm, walk…

- - - - her husband may not get this back
- - - - damage to brain is permanent a lot of the time and her husband may never be able to use his arm again
- - - - left and right cerebral hemispheres
      - hemispheres projecting motor commands to opposite side of body
      - Four Lobes
        
        frontal lobe
        
        forms anterior part of cerebral hemisphere
        
        Parietal lobe
        
        forms superoposterior part of cerebral hemisphere
        
        temporal lobe
        
        involved with hearing and smell
        
        occipital lobe
        
        forms posterior part of cerebral hemisphere
    - - epithalamus
      - thalamus
      - hypothalamus
    - - cerebellum
      - cerebrum
      - diencephalon
  - - - primary motor cortex
        
        project contralaterally within brain stem or spinal cord
        
        control voluntary skeletal muscle activity
      - motor speech area
        
        controls muscular movement for vocalization
  - - - blurred vision
      - weakness
      - headache
      - dizziness
      - difficulty walking
  - - - rarely walks in a straight line but appears to sway and stagger
    - - difficult/unable to stand on one foot
    - - inability to close eyes and touch nose