The anticonvulsant fosphenytoin is safe and effective in quickly decreasing pain from sudden attacks of acute trigeminal ...

Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...

The varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox at the initial infection but stays dormant in nerve cells. If it awakens, it can travel along the trigeminal nerve of the face and reach the first branch, ...

The 118 undersigned organizations – representing people living with epilepsy; caregivers and loved ones; physicians, care providers, and epilepsy centers; epilepsy researchers; and others – are united ...

"Music is like medication for me," said Salisbury. "When I'm working, I always play tunes in my head." Putting aside his nerves, 11 years ago, Salisbury decided it was time an audience heard those ...

Among all the primary sensory neurons, those innervating muscle spindles in the jaw-closing muscles are exceptionally located in the brainstem as the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (MTN), thereby ...

When the oral herpes virus becomes active again, it travels along the trigeminal nerve—which controls feeling in the face—and causes cold sores to develop in a series of stages: The first outbreak is ...