The Cranial Nerves song covers the 12 pairs of cranial nerves and their functions and is used by medical students the world over to help them learn the cranial nerves. Students use the lyric sheet and ...

This article discusses how the cranial nerves work as components of the peripheral nervous system; these are special nerves associated with the brain. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with ...

A complex system of nerves and muscles enables the human eye to blink, gaze, and shift focus. The trochlear nerve is one of six cranial nerves that carry electrical impulses from the brain to the eye.

A paralyzed man with a spinal cord injury to the C7 vertebrae is able to move his fingers again. Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine rerouted working nerves in the patient's upper ...

THE origin of vertebrate animals is to be found according to many morphologists in those invertebrates which are composed of a series of segments, and one of the chief arguments in favour of this view ...

Nerves are a collection of neurons, which are the individual nerve cells. Nerves can be damaged by diabetes – known as neuropathy. A neuron has a soma (the cell body) which includes the cell nucleus, ...