Studies have shown that activation of the trigeminal nerve may come from a part of the brain called the hypothalamus.

VOA: special.2011.05.03

He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

In people with MS, when nerve signals reach a damaged area, some of the signals are blocked or delayed from traveling to or from the brain.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

About ten years ago, a device called the Vagus Nerve Stimulator was developed.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

The nerve starts a process that makes one eye watery and red.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

These problems were more common among males, those with injured nerve tissue in the brain and those who had been given oxygen supplies for days as a baby.

VOA: special.2010.11.30

These genes are involved in a number of inherited metabolic disorders, including Tay Sachs, a rare,incurable and usually fatal disease that causes the destruction of nerve cells in young children.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11