The seventh cranial nerve starts in your brainstem and then travels through the base of your skull near the eighth cranial nerve. Once your facial nerve is past the ear, it enters your face ...

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Although we refer to the vagus nerve as singular, it's actually a pair of nerves that emerge from the left and right side of the medulla oblongata portion of the brain stem. The nerve gets its ...

Cranial nerves located within the brain stem play a critical role in normal bodily function. The 10 th cranial nerve is the main nerve in the parasympathetic pathway, controlling for the "rest and ...

A key brainstem function is to convey messages from your brain out to your body and vice versa. This regulates a large number of conscious and unconscious processes. The nerves that pass through ...

A specific group of nerve cells in the brain stem appears to control how semaglutide affects appetite and weight -- without causing nausea.

Three weeks ago, he became the first child in the U.S. to receive an auditory brain stem implant. The procedure involves placing a microchip on the brain stem to bypass the cochlear nerves altogether.

Dr. Allyson Coffin stopped by the 207 studio to share tips for stress relief through breathing and activating your diaphragm.

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

They begin in the brain stem, run through the face, neck and chest, and reach into the abdomen, where they terminate in the colon. The vagus nerve not only divides and branches out ...

“This research is important because we found that through stimulation of the vagus nerve in the brainstem, we can reduce harmful inflammation with or without effects on the heart rate.” ...

Scientists in Japan have identified a nerve pathway involved in the processing of rewarding and distressing stimuli and situations in mice. The new pathway, originating in a bundle of brain stem ...