The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part ...

The second among the 12 pairs of cranial nerves is the optic nerve. Mary sat across the table from me in my office in a ...

A neurological assessment evaluates the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, to identify abnormalities affecting daily functioning.

Dear Doctors: I keep reading about how the vagus nerve has a lot to do with things like mood, digestion and keeping your brain healthy. Where is it located? Supposedly there is even a kind of ...

Primate cranial diversity is the product of alternative evolutionary compromises among competing structural and functional demands on the cranium within divergent primate lineages. Superimposed on ...