Demyelination refers to damage to the myelin around nerves. Myelin coats many nerves in the body, but it can become damaged due to inflammation from viral infections, autoimmune diseases ...

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 ...

The CNS includes the brain and spinal cord, and the PNS is made up of all the body’s remaining nerves. The PNS can also be subdivided into smaller components: the somatic and autonomic nervous systems ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

The root cause of acute or sudden sensorineural hearing loss lies in the inner ear, sensory organ or the vestibulocochlear nerve. Whatever its cause, there is potential for the auditory nerve to be ...

Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammation that damages your optic nerve. It can cause vision loss and pain when you move your eyes. As the inflammation goes away, your symptoms usually get better.

Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator ...

The trajectories of several small branches originating from the main trunk of the caudal cerebellar artery coursed alongside the facial and vestibulocochlear nerves, ultimately reaching the dorsal ...

Although the requirement of neurotrophins for the prevention of cell death in the peripheral nervous system is well established, their physiological involvement in nerve growth is still unclear.

If you have seizures which can’t be controlled with epilepsy medicines, and you are not able to have epilepsy brain surgery, then vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy may be an option for you. The ...

Then, after quiet settled over the tidy rancher, Betancourt, 47, sat at the kitchen table with a medical book and tablet to study the functions of the vestibulocochlear nerve, medial longitudinal ...