However, medical intervention may be necessary if the cyst grows and becomes inflamed or compresses the synovial membrane, ...

Whereas HSV-1 latency is found only in cranial nerve ganglia, HSV-2 becomes latent in lumbrosacral ganglia. The treatment for HSV-2 encephalitis is the same as for HSV-1 (see above). HSV ...

Research has shown that HSV-1, the virus responsible for cold sores, can spread into specific areas of the brain and may ...

The 12 cranial nerves exist in symmetric pairs that emerge ... From the ear, the lesser petrosal nerve branches off and ...

Neuroma of the gasserian ganglion is also a possibility. Jefferson, 5 in his classic review, points out that there are always additional indications, including pain, other cranial-nerve palsies ...

Nested deeper within the brain are essential structures such as the basal ganglia, the amygdala ... of the brain are a dozen pairs of cranial nerves, which link the brain directly to muscles ...

Scientists discovered a mechanoreceptor that triggers the distinctive shake-off behavior observed in mice when they become ...

It’s found in pain-sensing nerve fibers that run alongside meningeal blood vessels and in the trigeminal ganglia near the base of the skull where many nerves are rooted. The molecule is a ...

cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and plexuses). What is the neural basis of our perceptual experience? Simultaneous recordings from many individual neurons in humans provide ...

Targeting the kappa opioid receptor with an agonist is a new pharmacy strategy for treating moderate to severe CKD-associated ...

VZV causes chickenpox (varicella), after which the virus becomes latent in cranial nerve, dorsal root and autonomic nervous system ganglia along the entire neuraxis. Decades later, a declining VZV ...

It consists of nerves that carry information between the ... a high-resolution atlas of human somatosensory dorsal root ganglion neurons. This work revealed human-specific molecular features ...