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 ...

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 ...

“It’s almost like you can feel that the land is in pain, and you are carrying that pain in your body as well.” The destruction of parts of Ritidian Point weigh heavily on her and other Chamorro.

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 ...

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 ...

People who have trigeminal neuralgia (TN), which is also called tic douloureux, experience chronic pain in the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve. Symptoms of TN range from a constant ache to a ...

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites ...