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

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 ...

The longest of the cranial nerves, it controls your inner nerve center—the parasympathetic nervous system. And it oversees a ...

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 ...

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 ...

sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and plexuses). Neural recordings from parrots and songbirds reveal the ways in which vocal production is encoded in the brain ...

Virginia Tech’s Pamela VandeVord and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Gunnar Brolinson recently recieved a $2.17 ...