We describe a series of 10 patients with a painless and purely sensory affection of one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve. The symptoms resolved partially or completely in most subjects.

It could be Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN), a condition so excruciating that it has been dubbed the “suicide disease”. Experts say it’s worse than a migraine, and sadly, most people don’t even ...

"While we've known about these sensitive nerves in crocodiles, we've never measured the size of the nerve bundle, or ganglion, in their skulls, until now. When compared to humans, this trigeminal ...

Seventeen patients suffering from classical trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux) were studied during their hospitalization for selective section of the posterior root of the affected trigeminal ...

Cell-cell interactions during ganglion assembly In the chick embryo, trigeminal placode cells begin to ingress at stage ∼ 12 (ref. 1), intermixing with a stream of migratory cranial crest cells ...

The nerve allows you to feel sensations in your face such as heat, touch and so forth. "In my case the trigeminal nerve that runs down the left side of my face was being strangled, if you like, by ...

The researchers wanted to take a closer look at a trigeminal ganglion, a bundle of nerve neurons involved in sensing in an elephant’s trunk and face. Each elephant has two of them. “We found ...