Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified three types of nerve cells connected to the intestinal villi, suggesting ...

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement-they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision.

The need for disruptive technologies in nerve repair is clear—TISSIUM’s COAPTIUM® CONNECT System offers an innovative atraumatic sutureless method for coaptation of severed nerves.

The vitamins B12 and B9 (folate) help maintain a healthy nervous system. Because of this ... People can sometimes sustain damage to the lingual nerve during a dental procedure.

In the throat, it splits into the lingual branch and pharyngeal ... To keep your nervous system healthy, you should: The glossopharyngeal nerve is among a few nerves that contain motor, sensory ...

Other problems or conditions that can impact the tongue include tongue cancer, transient lingual papillitis ... it may be caused by your gastrointestinal tract not properly absorbing the nutrients ...

"Many relaxation techniques, like deep breathing and meditation, are designed to enhance the parasympathetic system, with the vagus nerve playing a central role in relaxing most of our organs.

The lingual branch performs the specialized ... This is part of the parasympathetic nervous system because saliva is involved in the digestive process. Problems with the glossopharyngeal nerve can ...

Although another dentist performed technically successful surgery to repair Harrison’s lingual nerve anesthesia, Harrison continues to experience chronic pain and loss of sensation in his tongue, ...

Now researchers have identified the likely cause -- an overgrowth of nerve cells in the bladder. A perplexing problem for people with recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs) is persistent pain ...

Urinary tract infections are painful ... UTI pain can linger. Now they do. Nerve growth from immune responses to the infection might be to blame, researchers report March 1 in Science Immunology.