The vagus nerve, a complex bundle of 200,000 fibers connecting the brain to vital organs, has remained a medical enigma for ...

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural ...

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

BACKGROUND Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) commonly presents with motor weakness and neurological symptoms and signs that include loss of tendon reflexes. However, patients with GBS also experience ...

For all the known benefits CBD offers, it’s unclear how well it can relieve nerve pain. Few studies have looked at CBD and nerve pain specifically. With neuropathy, CBD research is even more ...

Bristol Palin is suffering from facial paralysis, and doctors believe it might be caused by Bell’s palsy. “I woke up nine days ago with a little weird sensation in my face. My mouth was pulling this ...

I turned 50 during the pandemic and, like most people, I put off all nonessential health care, including my shingles vaccine. Big mistake. When the telltale red bumps of shingles cropped up on my face ...

Nerve pain was most common in lung cancer patients, affecting more than 62%. This is probably because these patients ...

Four in 10 patients treated with chemotherapy experience persistent severe peripheral nerve pain, a recent study found. The study, published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, analyzed data ...

One 2023 study found that camphor helped lessen sensitivity to nerve pain in mice. However, it is less well-researched than menthol for its benefits for pain management in humans. This product ...

While the central nervous system is comprised of the brain and spinal cord, the peripheral nervous system is made up of all nerves branching ... an inability to feel pain, vision loss, poor ...

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 ...