The vagus nerve is the 10th cranial nerve, also called the wandering or pneumogastric nerve, and is the longest nerve in the body. It contains bidirectional motor and sensory fibers, afferent fibers ...

The diameters of the fibres in the nerves innervating twenty-five muscles in the rabbit have been measured and two types of muscle nerves are distinguished. (1) The 'bimodal' nerves of nearly all limb ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The anatomical mechanisms for processing auditory signals are extremely complex and incompletely understood, despite major advances already ...

The brain may play a role in helping the ear regulate its sensitivity to sound and compensate for hearing loss by sending a signal to a structure in the inner ear known as the cochlea, according to a ...

Stimulation of the cervical vagus nerve with implanted vagus nerve stimulation (iVNS) has been used clinically for more than 20 years to treat patients with epilepsy. More recently, a non-invasive ...

ALTHOUGH our Puritan ancestors may have thought that pain was a scourge of God to try the soul of man, few modern philosophers would agree with this concept. The attempt to control chronic pain by ...

- Neuroscience Industry Veteran to Lead Development of Chronic Pain Treatments; Technology Targets Novel Biological Pathway - PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Afferent Pharmaceuticals, a ...