MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The vestibulocochlear nerve independently carries nerve impulses leaving the hearing and balance organs located in the inner ear toward the brain.

Detailed explanation-2: -The vestibulocochlear nerve provides for hearing and balance. Patients with this nerve injury oftentimes have vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing impairment. Hearing loss due to TBIs is more frequently a sensory loss than a conductive loss. Patients may often complain of the sensation of the room spinning around them.

Detailed explanation-3: -If the eighth cranial nerve is injured, it can’t convey information from the inner ear efficiently, resulting in hearing loss on one side. Hearing loss may result from traumatic brain injury, which is often caused by a blunt force trauma to the head or another external force.

Detailed explanation-4: -Cranial nerve VIII brings sound and information about one’s position and movement in space into the brain. The auditory and vestibular systems subserve several functions basic to clinical medicine and to psychiatry.

Detailed explanation-5: -Labyrinthitis is the inflammation of part of the inner ear called the labyrinth. The eighth cranial nerve (vestibulocochlear nerve) may also be inflamed. The inflammation of these causes a feeling of spinning (vertigo), hearing loss, and other symptoms. In most people, these symptoms go away over time.