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by Paulette Marie Gillig, MD, PhD, and Richard D. Sanders, MD Dr. Gillig is Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty of the Graduate college, Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; Dr. Sanders is Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Boonshoft college of Medicine, Wright State University, and Ohio VA

The facial nerve, CN VII, is the seventh paired cranial nerve. In this article, we shall look at the anatomical course of the nerve, and the motor, sensory and parasympathetic functions of its terminal branches.

Introduction A common claim by evolutionists is that the human body is poorly designed, which to them is evidence that it was not intelligently designed, but rather cobbled together by the unintelligent process of evolution.

Cranial nerve: Cranial nerve, in vertebrates, any of the paired peripheral nerves connecting muscles and sense organs in the head and thorax directly to the brain.

Facial nerve paralysis is a common problem that involves the paralysis of any structures innervated by the facial nerve.The pathway of the facial nerve is long and relatively convoluted, and so there are a number of causes that may result in facial nerve paralysis.

The optic nerve transmits special sensory information for sight. It is one of two nerves that do not join with the brainstem (the other being the olfactory nerve).

Plan of the facial and intermediate nerves and their communication with other nerves. (“Nucleus of Facial N.” labeled at upper left.)

Infra Orbital Nerve Block – Block of Anterior and Middle Superior Alveolar Nerves Inferior alveolar nerve block as the name suggests blocks the Infraorbital nerve block along with some other nerves which is used mainly when …

The facial nerve is one of the key cranial nerves with a complex and broad range of functions. Although at first glance it is the motor nerve of facial expression which begins as a trunk and emerges from the parotid gland as five branches (see f