This illustration shows an anterior-posterior projection of cranial nerve nuclei. Left half illustrates sensory nuclei and right half shows motor nuclei. Note that the cranial nerve X is connected ...

Mnemosyne was the Greek goddess of memory, Her namesake, mnemonics, simply means "memory aid". Cramming medical facts and remembering at least some of them forever is a challenging task for any mind.

In some cases, a stroke can affect the brainstem and damage the nuclei where the facial nerve originates from. In those cases, the entire side of the face will get weak, like with Bell's palsy.

The cochlea houses the cell bodies of the cochlear nerve within a region called the spiral ganglion. Nerve cells (neurons) in ...

The motivation behind creating a mnemonic phrase, complementing the existing and not so human-friendly, binary and hexadecimal representation of the seed, was to create a group of easy to remember ...

There are many different reasons a word can be tricky to spell. For example: A mnemonic is a tool that helps you to memorise something specific, like how to spell a word. For example, the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from ...

Acupuncture is an alternative therapy that may help relieve nerve pain, numbness, and discomfort. However, larger research studies are still needed to better understand the potential benefits.

All of the cells settled down around the pillars, which caused their nuclei to curve. This caused openings to form in the nuclear membrane but not in the exterior cellular structure as witnessed ...

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Johnny Mnemonic is one of these couriers who's doubled his capacity to a dangerous 180 gigabytes and if he doesn't download in 24 hours, he'll die. Unfortunately, a gang of Japanese Yakuza ...