About one peculiar variant of the lesion of the upper branch of the facial nerve in hemiplegia

Abstract

The characteristic usually given for cerebral paralysis of facial nerve - affection only of its lower branches and very small participation of the upper branch, explained by Dejerine's bilateral supranuclear innervation of the latter, as more detailed researches of patients show, cannot be considered absolutely true. There are cases presenting retreats where both branches are involved in the lesion. Such cases have given rise to the assumption that the central conductors for the superior branch of n. facialis all the way from the cortex to the nucleus in the brainstem are separated from the conductors for the lower branches.

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