Patients with occipital headache experienced relief with 60 days of peripheral nerve stimulation, according to data presented ...

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Vagus nerve stimulation in patients with Alzheimer's disease: Additional follow-up results of a pilot study through 1 year. J Clin Psychiatry. 2006 Aug;67(8):1171-8. PubMed. Jacobs HI, Riphagen JM, ...

When the nerve’s afferent fibers bring news of dangerous inflammation in the body, the brain sends signals back down the efferent pathways.

A recent Science study found that communication between the hepatic vagal afferent nerve (HVAN) and the brain influences circadian eating patterns. In mice, ...

However, when the hepatic vagal afferent nerve (HVAN) – which creates a channel of two-way communication between the brain and the liver – was severed, the overeating behavior in these mice ...

Some cranial nerves have both afferent and efferent functions. The trochlear nerve function is purely efferent. It works as a pulley system to control the movement of the superior oblique muscle.

Gu and Yamada report that protons are the signals that cross the synapse space from a Merkel cell to an Aβ-afferent nerve, and his UAB team identified the receptors in the nerve that sense the protons ...

Afferent nerves deliver information from sensory receptors to the brain. Efferent nerves transport signals from the brain to the periphery, initiating a physiological response. MC: What are some of ...

Afferent nerves transmit signals from the body to the brain, and in response, efferent nerves relay instructions from the brain to our organs. As a key component of the autonomic nervous system, ...