A 52-year-old woman has had two months of numbness over the right forehead, the right upper eyelid and the tip of her nose, with a gritty feeling in the right eye. Sensation over both cheeks and the jaw is normal. She wrinkles both sides of her forehead, closes both eyes tightly and shows her teeth symmetrically. Eye movements are full and hearing is normal.
When the right cornea and then the left cornea are touched with cotton wool, which one of the following pairs of blink responses would be found in this woman?
Keep going — a set of ten like this one, one at a time.
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