I worked with stroke patients a lot, I’ve never met anyone who complained their eyesight/ vision was affected..maybe distorted some sort, but not like blinded. they may have problems with gaze or tracking but not of visual in nature.
If the only permanent effect of the stroke is paralysis of facial muscles, the eye will still work. There might be dry eye problems If the muscles that work the eyelid are paralyzed.
On the other hand, If the nerve connecting to the eye is damaged, or if the area of the brain that controls the eye is damaged, the eye can potentially go blind. Or it could stop coordinating with the other eye and cause double vision, it could become a lazy eye, it could have difficulty tracking, or any number of other things depending on the exact damage caused by the stroke.
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Yeah sometime that happens
I worked with stroke patients a lot, I’ve never met anyone who complained their eyesight/ vision was affected..maybe distorted some sort, but not like blinded. they may have problems with gaze or tracking but not of visual in nature.
It can. Visual cortex and motor to the face are in different areas of the brain. Depends on extent of damage.
Yeah you can even have damage that paralyzes the eyelid and eye movement and still have impaired but existent visual info
If the only permanent effect of the stroke is paralysis of facial muscles, the eye will still work. There might be dry eye problems If the muscles that work the eyelid are paralyzed.
On the other hand, If the nerve connecting to the eye is damaged, or if the area of the brain that controls the eye is damaged, the eye can potentially go blind. Or it could stop coordinating with the other eye and cause double vision, it could become a lazy eye, it could have difficulty tracking, or any number of other things depending on the exact damage caused by the stroke.