Cranial nerves

study, cranial nerve VII, the facial nerve, is damaged. The patient has loss of taste, which is associated with the sensory nerves of the facial nerve (Walker,2017). The loss of taste, which is located on the anterior 2/3 of the tongue is the key to this conclusion, as the facial nerve controls the sense of taste on the anterior 2/3 of the tongue, as the case study states the cranial nerve is only partially functional (Walker,2017). Cranial nerve VII, or the facial nerve is a mixed nerve which…

within the face. It occurs when there is a disruption of normal function in the trigeminal nerve, which sends electrical impulses of pain, pressure, temperature, and touch to the brain from the jaw, face, gums, and around the eyes. The disruption is caused by compression or damage to the trigeminal nerve, usually due to contact between the nerves and a nearby blood vessel. This contact places pressure upon the nerve, which leads to malfunction and pain. In most cases, the disorder begins as…

that the paralysis arose from the nerve sheath becoming thickened and compressed in stylomastoid foramen. The cold hypothesis, or paralysis e frigore, maintained that exposure to draughts produced the palsy. Exposure to cold or drafts considered as the primary cause of Bell's palsy. Cobb and Coggeshall38 hypothesized:-Edema of a nerve trunk may interrupt passage of the nerve impulses along axons, especially if the oedema happens to be a point at which the nerve is passing through a bony canal…

Optic Neuritis is a condition where the optic nerve, which carries visual information from the eye to the brain, becomes inflamed. Most of the damage is done to the protective myelin sheath that surrounds the nerve, which is vital for good vision. A few symptoms that occur to people who have Optic Neuritis are: distorted color vision, blurriness, pain, and even vision loss. During a routine eye exam, a doctor will look for signs of Optic Neuritis by checking the eye pressure. The eye will be…

facial pain. TN is defined by the International Headache Society (IHS) as “unilateral disorder characterized by brief electric shock-like pains, abrupt in onset and termination, and limited to the distribution of one or more divisions of the trigeminal nerve (Oberman, 2010). It is also known as “Tic Doloureux”. The exact cause of TN is still unclear, but the pain is triggered by several factors, such as eating, washing, shaving, cold, warmth, and draught (Van Kleef et al., 2009). According to…

A nerve cell is also called a motor neuron, which is made from a cell body, an axon and axon terminals. The cell body contains a nucleus and dendrites that receive the signals and send it down the axon that is covered in myelin sheath. The axon terminals are…

smoking. Although, at the same time the drug is killing nerve cells in the brain because it has strong toxins that it can damage the nerve cells and kill them. By continuously smoking, people keep damaging their nerves cells and over time at some point they would hit in a stage that it would change their lives forever. One of the worst case scenarios is that a person can get into a vegetative state and never recover from it because the nerve cells can’t recover never again in their lives.…

The class I observed was a senior exercise class on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7zCDiiTBTk. After watching the class, I can only assume the age of the participants is around 70 or 80 years of age. This class had 5 female participants and all of them stay seated throughout the entire class. The reason that the class participants are seated in chairs while exercising is because they may have limited mobility. Because of their age seniors need approach everything differently in life…

Polyradiculitis, otherwise known as a variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), is a very rare disease where the immune system attacks the spinal nerve roots. Fewer than 20,000 a year get this disease, and I was one of them. It was one day in the early April of 2001. I was a healthy three year old toddler that went from running around and climbing on furniture to not being able to walk. My mom started to notice that I wasn’t walking; but instead I was pulling myself across the floor. I also had…

Muscle Pain, Adult Muscle pain (myalgia) may be caused by many things, including: • Overuse or muscle strain, especially if you are not in shape. This is the most common cause of muscle pain. • Injury. • Bruises. • Viruses, such as the flu. • Infectious diseases. • A chronic condition that causes muscle tenderness, fatigue, and headache (fibromyalgia). • A condition, such as lupus, in which the body’s disease-fighting system attacks other organs in the body (autoimmune disease).…