How to Find Your Blind Spot - Clinical Skills - 4K

Finding your blind spot can be a challenge for many students.

Here we put forward a simple way to understand WHAT your blind spot is, and why it is vital to the cranial nerve examination.

There follows a brief tool, which will allow you to find your OWN blindspot, and determine its size. This will hopefully help you in examining a patient's cranial nerves and finding out the size of their scotoma through the examination of the blindspot

For the colour blindness examination you can download the Ishihara charts free, from here:
http://www.ishihara-test.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Free-Online-Ishihara-Test-Download.pdf

The paper on visual hallucinations is here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/17072

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For other cranial nerve examination explanation videos please look here:

Cranial Nerve Examination Demonstration:
https://youtu.be/nLsv38ybGJE

Cranial Nerve I - Olfactory Nerve:
https://youtu.be/vWssH1ZAWs0

Cranial Nerve II - Optic Nerve
https://youtu.be/6rELhtingO4

Cranial Nerves III, IV & VI
https://youtu.be/-VoWWDFB_ys

Cranial Nerve V - Trigeminal Nerve
https://youtu.be/-RiulvMEzg8

Cranial Nerve VII - The Facial Nerve
https://youtu.be/MZcti2MzjbY

Cranial Nerve VIII - The Vestibulocochlear Nerve
https://youtu.be/ZdxzfUazDL8

Cranial Nerve IX & X - Glossopharyngeal & Vagus Nerve
https://youtu.be/f_hCm_vSOPE

Cranial Nerve XI & XII - Accessory & Hypoglossal Nerve
https://youtu.be/nt6CjHtl3oA

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00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Identifying the Blind Spot
01:50 - How the Brain Interprets Vision
02:35 - Understanding Color Blindness and Visual Perception
03:56 - Significance of the Blind Spot in Medical Exams
04:42 - Simple Method to Find Your Own Blind Spot
05:52 - Practical Demonstration to Find Your Blind Spot
07:17 - Conclusion