Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

As part of the peripheral nervous system, the cranial nerves stem directly from the brain and come in 12 pairs, with one of ...

A collaborative study led by Professor Vittoria Raffa at the University of Pisa and Assistant Professor Fabian Raudzus ...

Someone who has brainstem death cannot have any form of bodily response; it is mostly their heart that is beating.

These are nerves that go from the brain and brain stem to the eyes, nose, ears, tongue, face and shoulders. Cranial nerves carry messages from these areas about sensations such as taste, smell, sight ...

"Our vagus nerve is our 10th cranial nerve, and it comes at the back of our brain stem, which is our medulla oblongata," Dr. Allyson Coffin said. "It comes in the back of our brainstem, and then it ...

Managing nerve connections, as four of your 12 cranial nerves go through the medulla oblongata. Managing the place where your movement-related nerves crisscross.

Patients with a small cranial nerve tumor that can cause hearing loss, vertigo, imbalance and ringing in the ears have typically been watched rather than proactively treated, as the risks of early ...

Acoustic neuroma is a rare non-cancerous tumor. It grows slowly from an overproduction of Schwann cells. The tumor then presses on the hearing and balance nerves in the inner ear. Schwann cells ...

Aim To compare antemortem cranial MRI with postmortem histopathological examination of the brain in full-term infants with neonatal encephalopathy following perinatal asphyxia. Patients and methods In ...