The olfactory nerve is the first of the 12 cranial nerves, and it has a lot to do with your sense of taste There are 12 ...

Medically reviewed by Steven Gans, MD The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is the system of nerves and ganglia outside the ...

A cursory examination is performed to identify abnormalities of cranial nerves. Then the examiner determines range of motion (ROM) of the neck and extremities and perform a sensory evaluation ...

This is done to detect neurological damage or disease. The cranial nerves control eye muscles, jaw muscles, and the tongue. Other cranial nerves include the optic nerve for vision, the ...

This also applies to pancreatic cancer, which is interwoven with a dense network of nerves. However, only the nerve fibers project into the tumor, while the nuclei of the nerve cells lie far ...

sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and plexuses). The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis ...

The biological mechanisms of rehabilitation after stroke are not fully understood. Here authors identify parvalbumin interneurons as a key mediator of rehabilitation-induced stroke recovery and a ...