The Facial Nerve (CNVII): Animated Review

Dr. Eric Laywell, Associate Professor at the Florida State University College of Medicine, discusses the pathway and function of the often confusing cranial nerve VII, aka the Facial Nerve. Dr. Laywell explains the four different types of innervation this nerve encompasses and demystifies the series of bony tunnels it traverses.
Special thank you to our content editor Dr. Christopher Leadem, Associate Dean and Associate Professor at FSU
This animation was directed and produced by Jodi Slade, senior medical illustrator at the FSU College of Medicine.
This animation and all content is ©2016 The Florida State University College of Medicine

[@mdfersch]

Videos like this for each of the cranial nerves would save medical students endless hours who really want to learn the whole picture of cranial nerve anatomy! Please please please consider doing a video for each nerve :)

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The quality of these videos.... absolutely phenomenal!!

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Please upload other cranial nerves if you have. This is one of the best animations videos I have seen on the internet thus far. The quality of drawing, depicting, and explaining really helped me out and I know many others are looking for external resources for help. You would really be paying it forward for future physicians or science lovers :) Thanks

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this video saved me. I have to deliver a lecture and I was informed in a very short period of time. thanks for making it super easy.

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The GSA behind the ear is clinically relevant. Bell's Palsy patients can feel sharp pain behind their ear because of it and it can lead to misdiagnosis

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Please make more videos like this, with this level of animation. It is amazing!!!

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I had TN for 17yrs. in all 3 nerves, like having a baby through your nostril every 10 seconds. A ton of clueless docs & 2 Gamma Knife surgeries later - I'm good now! No meds helped... feet in hot water seemed to help temporarily. Crying made it worse. Don't give up hope - believe you will beat this!!!

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All these videos are absolutely amazing! A new way of teaching and learning Anatomy, that sometimes makes me crazy! I'm looking forward to see new videos about cranial nerves!

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I was struggling with the course of facial nerve inside the the petrous part of temporal bone . Phenomenal video . Really appreciative.

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thank you soooo much, this solves a dilemma for me in understanding corda tympani in particular. thanks

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This is by far the best video on this subject. Thank you!

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I hope this is the future of medical teaching !!!

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wow good job..is there any chance u can do other nerves too...like trigeminal, vagus? highly appreciated...thanx!

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Excellent video. Such hard work in turning a complex topic easy. Bravo

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This video is GOLD!!!!! EXCELLENT!!!!!

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Existential cirsies ☝🏻

Excellent. Congratulations to the entire team. Anatomy thanks

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Thank you for making anatomy much easier!

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excellent work..... thank u so much.......

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😊best explanation on facial nerve ...thank you

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phenomenal..loved it

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Thank you sir.

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amazing ! please make more of this and add lesions :)

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Thanks so much for this excellent work

[@safarityler]

Dr. Laywell... would you be interested in tackling Renal physiology and pathology? I feel like your style would really lend itself to that subject.

[@FSUMedMedia]

Thank you for the suggestion. We’re glad that you find our videos helpful. More content is coming soon, with an emphasis on anatomical and embryological concepts that we include in our first-year medical courses. However, we do envision eventually including system-specific concepts, as you suggest.

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Awesome vedio..tysm! I realized my nerves practically!..it's gives interest to learn...ty..

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Wow.. best animated..!!

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Thank you oh god for this video

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Please upload the CN V, Please please please!

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So detailed, thank a lot

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thanks a tonne !

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Perfect!!!

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At its best🙌

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The skin sensation is relevant to Ramsey-Hunt syndrome

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GVA missing

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i'm watching this to figure out one specific thing, but as i watch the video i'm like "damn this is the best thing ive ever seen in my life"

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I've watched this video time and again. Such a quick, crystal clear way to revise the basics. Please make more!

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"Dream of facial nerve anatomy comes to reality " thanks a lot

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YES YES YES! THANK YOU! This is soooo satisfying; you wouldn't even know the amount of pleasure this gave me.

[@Dks2114]

Hello and wonderful presentation. Very educational! I had a question about the accuracy though. According to Board Review Series of NeuroAnatomy, it mentions that the facial nerve has 5 functional components and that fifth component is "GVA (General Visceral Afferent)" whose cell bodies originate in the geniculate ganglion and innervates the soft palate and adjacent pharyngeal wall. They also mention that THIS is the one that has no clinical relevance; not GSA. In your presentation, you said that the one without clinical relevance is GSA said at time 1:28 and 3:50). As you can see this doesn't add up. Could you comment if this is an error or clarify the role of GVA? Thanks!

[@rodolfozach]

I loved this presentation, thank you.. I'd like to clear a thought of mine in reference to the General Sensory Afferent .. I thought its 2nd order neurons were located in the Pons' principal trigeminal nucleus, not in the nucleus of the Solitary Tract, used for taste.

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The animation is amazing! I've lost so much hair looking at static images and reading anatomical text!

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I got Bells Palsy in Nov. My nerves are still moving in my whole body, Why ?

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Nerves are very sensitive so people who have these problem need an extra care to deal with especially the proper treatment.

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Please heal me from constant ear pain and tinnitus

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Please make vedios for other cranial nerves too...thanks a lot for all the effort...🖤

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[@angellaonase]

wow, so nicely drawn. and I never understood it so well when I was a firstie learning anatomy from the sand dry books.

[@kanamala]

the best visual description of the facial nerve ive seen yet. thank you so much.

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can you make a video on hypoglossal and glossopharyngeal nerve as well? I really liked this one

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Good video..please is there any chances you do it for other cranial nerves

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