Cranial neuropathies include many conditions that affect any part of the 12 cranial nerve pairs in the brain. General symptoms may include pain, weakness, and loss of function. However, each type ...

The glossopharyngeal nerve is one of twelve cranial nerves that connect to the brain.Like the other cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal nerve is paired — there's one on each side of your brain.

Cranial nerve function varies depending on the type of nerve. Generally speaking, these nerves control your motor skills in your face and trigger sensations (tasting, smelling, hearing, feeling ...

Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a pain syndrome caused by compression of your ninth cranial nerve, also known as the glossopharyngeal nerve. You have one of these nerves on each side of your head.

Medically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MDMedically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MD The trigeminal nerve, also called the fifth cranial nerve, provides sensation to the face and eye and facilitates ...

Cranial sacral therapy may help provide relief for certain conditions, including headaches. There’s a low risk of side effects and you may try this therapy if you have musculoskeletal head, neck ...

Trigeminal neuralgia is a rare nerve disorder that causes sudden, sharp, and severe pain, usually on one side of the face. People describe it as a shooting, electric shock-like pain in the teeth ...

Nerve sensitization arises from abnormalities in how pain signals are processed and perceived in the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. Sensitization makes the nerves more sensitive and more reactive ...

One bright April day in 1903, Dr. Henry Head of Cambridge University, England went to a surgeon friend and asked him to make a six-and-a-half-inch gash in his upper left arm. Dr. Head, a ...

But this new research, published in PNAS, shows that the drug also works outside the brain, in the nerves that first detect pain. Their discovery centers on a substance called AM404, which the ...

A 67-year-old woman was evaluated because of headache and retro-orbital pain. MRI of the head showed edema and enhancement of the optic-nerve sheath, sparing the nerve. A diagnosis was made.

Patients with a small cranial nerve tumor that can cause hearing loss, vertigo, imbalance and ringing in the ears have typically been watched rather than proactively treated, as the risks of early ...