Along with a chain of other nerves, it innervates (provides nerve function ... CN7 and its branches control most of the ...

Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD Facial nerve paralysis describes weakness in the muscles on one or both sides of ...

Anatomically, in vertebrate embryos, cranial motor neurons develop in columns and eventually cluster to form nuclei in discrete regions of the midbrain and hindbrain (which together make up the ...

The facial nerve allows one to move the muscles of the face in smiling, frowning, laughing, crying or making any other facial expressions. The nerve also controls the tear glands in the eyes, some of ...

However, HFS is often attributable to an irritation or a compression of the facial nerve by a blood vessel as it exits from the brainstem and is the most common peripherally induced movement disorder ...