Medically reviewed by John Carew, MD The greater petrosal nerve branches off of the facial nerve in the skull. Along with a ...

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

The map of the retina’s nerve network, referred to as a “connectome,” functions similarly to a ... “We can capture the entire ...

Experiments at TU Wien (Vienna) have now shown that the nerve cells of the retina (the so-called retinal ganglion cells) can take on different roles and thus fulfil individually different tasks for ...

Chronic pain is among the millions of patients globally whose management becomes a real challenge after surgical damage to ...

amacrine cells and retinal ganglion cells, which transmit the visual information to other parts of the visual system along the optic nerve.

By implanting a spinal cord stimulator to stimulate the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) in the patient's spine, they were able to block pain sensations originating from the damaged nerve. This first-of ...