Your brain is directly connected to various parts of your head, neck, and trunk by twelve pairs of nerves – these are your cranial nerves. They play an important role in sensing, controlling ...

The trochlear nerve is the fourth of 12 cranial nerves that emerge from the brain and extend down the head, neck, and torso. Cranial nerves help control sensory innervation: i.e., the ability to ...

Optic nerves (cranial nerve II): carry visual information from the retina to the primary visual nuclei of the brain. Each optic nerve consists of around 1.7 million nerve fibers.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have published new findings (DOI: 10.1038/s41413-025-00401-8) in Bone Research (February 2025), offering the first-ever 3D visualizations of how nerves ...