“So, basically,” I summarised, “your fourth nerve is a bit bruised, but it should recover with time.” I prescribed him some ...

These also fulfill critical functions. Running through parts of the brain are a dozen pairs of cranial nerves, which link the brain directly to muscles and sense organs in the head, neck ...

How do we learn new things? Neurobiologists using cutting-edge visualization techniques have revealed how changes across our synapses and neurons unfold. The findings depict how information is ...

and the 12 cranial nerves of the brain. These nerves are involved in smell, vision, pupil activity, eye movement, taste, hearing, swallowing, and movement of the face, neck, and shoulders.

"Our vagus nerve really affects a lot of things," Dr. Allyson Coffin said. "If it's off balance, you will notice." ...

The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is the system of nerves and ganglia outside the brain and spinal cord. The PNS consists ...

and 3000 inner hair cells that transduce the mechanical vibrations into neural impulses that reach the primary auditory cortex via the eighth cranial nerve. Most notable in age-related hearing ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...