The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...

Myelinated neurons transmit electrical signals more quickly than the unmyelinated nerves in the body. Myelinated axons are present in sensory neurons and motor neurons, but not all sensory and motor ...

While the central nervous system is comprised of the brain and spinal cord, the peripheral nervous system is made up of all nerves branching off the spinal cord, extending to every part of the body.

Kindeva Drug Delivery division Meridian Medical Technologies has won a new contract worth up to $129m from the US Government for the supply of its DuoDote chemical nerve agent antidote autoinjectors ...

the head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, Mohammed Raad, said after meeting with Aoun. Raad added that Hezbollah extended its hand last week by electing Aoun and they were hoping to meet an ...

BECAUSE of the interest in the recent publication on peripheral entrapment neuropathies of the upper extremity, 1 it was decided to review these conditions in the lower extremity. An entrapment ...

1. Met the diagnostic criteria for CPN injury as outlined in “Practical Neurology”: history of trauma; abnormal limb posture: limbs with peripheral nerve injury show varying degrees of deformity; ...

This was not based upon an inability of spinal motor nerves to grow, because they could easily be DiI-labeled in cultures that had been cultivated without beads (data not shown). Figure 4 ...

Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD Facial nerve paralysis describes weakness in the muscles on one or both sides of ...