"Cranial Nerves" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Twelve pairs of nerves that carry general afferent, visceral afferent, special afferent, somatic efferent, and autonomic efferent fibers.
| Descriptor ID |
D003391
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.800.800.120
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| Concept/Terms |
Cranial Nerves- Cranial Nerves
- Cranial Nerve
- Nerve, Cranial
- Nerves, Cranial
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cranial Nerves" by people in Profiles.
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Electrical stimulation of cranial nerves in cognition and disease. Brain Stimul. 2020 May - Jun; 13(3):717-750.
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Three-Year Outcomes of Cranial Nerve Stimulation for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The STAR Trial. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016 Jan; 154(1):181-8.
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Distribution of choline acetyltransferase immunoreactive somata in the feline brainstem: implications for REM sleep generation. Sleep. 1988 Feb; 11(1):1-16.
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Trends in neurovascular complications of surgical management for carotid body and cervical paragangliomas: a fifty-year experience with 153 tumors. J Vasc Surg. 1988 Feb; 7(2):284-91.