The olfactory nerve is the first of the 12 cranial nerves, and it has a lot to do with your sense of taste There are 12 ...

Discover 5 effective vagus nerve stimulation techniques that activate your body's natural relaxation response, reducing stress and improving overall wellbeing.

As the body ages, bones undergo changes that can hinder their ability to regenerate and heal. While previous studies have ...

Virginia Tech's Pamela VandeVord and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine's Gunnar Brolinson recently received a $2.17 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate ...

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 ...

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 ...

sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and plexuses). The human brain not only remembers who other people are, it also uses basic mathematical functions called basis ...