Trigeminal neuralgia is a condition that can cause excruciating facial pain, usually due to compression of the trigeminal nerve or other causes. Other conditions can be mistaken for trigeminal ...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic pain condition that affects about 12 out of 100,000 people in the United States each year. You may be experiencing sudden, severe face pain that comes and goes ...

Motor cortex stimulation is a new technique that is showing promise in the treatment, not of classic TN, but of intractable trigeminal neuropathic pain, which is a syndrome of severe, constant, ...

External trigeminal nerve stimulation (eTNS) may be an effective and well-tolerated rescue therapy for acute vestibular migraine (VM) attacks, a small retrospective study suggests. For 19 patients in ...

Scientists have developed a novel concept of a nose-to-brain system for the clinical application of neuropeptides. They developed a derivative of glucagon-like peptide-2 and found that when ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My sister has trigeminal neuralgia, the “suicide disease.” Her quality of life is gone, and I fear her life soon may follow. Please address this horrible disease and your ideas for ...

They say laughter is the best medicine — unless it feels like a lightning bolt to the face. That’s the brutal reality for sufferers of trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder so painful it’s earned a ...

Trigeminal neuralgia is usually suspected based on the presence of symptoms that are characteristic of the condition. The diagnosis is confirmed after a detailed examination and imaging studies have ...

Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN), colloquially known as "tic douloureux" or the "Suicide Disease," is a debilitating chronic pain condition that afflicts the trigeminal nerve, causing recurrent, intense ...