The trochlear nerve, also known as cranial nerve 4 (CN IV), controls the superior oblique muscle in your eye. This muscle allows you to move your eyeball down and shift your gaze from side to side.

The cranial motor nerves and sensory ganglia are formed in a stereotypical manner, and each has a unique appearance and targets specific tissues. In the adult brainstem, the anatomical ...

The vagus nerve is one of 12 pairs of cranial nerves in the body. It’s involved in various bodily functions, including digestion, heart rate, and breathing. There are 12 cranial nerves in the body.

This may reflect the nature of vascular blood supply to the cranial nerves in the brainstem, in addition to their infranuclear pathways, with exposure of the sixth nerve pathway to a greater ...

Decoding The Visual Pathway: Dr. Mandeep Singh Basu ... and the neural network that links them. The optic nerve, sometimes called cranial nerve II or CN II, allows for this complex link.

Cranial radiation ... end-joining DNA repair pathway. When this pathway was blocked in mice, lithium provided substantially less protection to the hippocampal nerve cells. The authors therefore ...