In addition to affecting the obvious functional aspects of the seventh cranial nerve like eye protection, such patients experience a profound dysfunction of facial expression. This may be underappreciated by multiple specialists caring for such patients. This review discusses the importance of ...
Rehabilitation of Facial Expression ("Mime Therapy") When the facial nerve degenerates for some reason, recovery of voluntary and involuntary (emotional) motor function will not be complete. This means that facial expression will be limited for the rest of the patient's life. The face will......
Expression … like a leopard who’s just sighted a plump impala —Jilly Cooper Expression like a stork that dropped a baby and broke it and is coming to explain to the parents —Mel Brooks Face was wound up like a spring —Alan Sillitoe ...
facial,nervus facialis,seventh cranial nerve cranial nerve- any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem face,human face- the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when ...
This knowledge of the vasa nervorum of the trigeminal demonstrates that blood flow to the nerve is controlled in the layers of the epineurium and external perineurium of the nerve proper, and at the level of the pia mater, capsule, and stroma of the ganglion. Arteriolovenular anastomoses...
In this study, we investigated the relationship between the severity of facial palsy and the level of myogenin expressed in the facial muscle.The animals were divided into two groups, depending on whether the facial nerve was resected or compressed. Expression of myogenin mRNA was examined using ...
With the exception of rare individuals who are insensitive to pain, either from congenital or disease-related anomalies of the nervous system (Erdem, Ozcan, Ilguy & Sirin, 2000; Greco, Villa, Fusetti, Orlandi & Pierotti, 2000), the experience of pain is.
It has been suggested that some patients with Bell's palsy may benefit from a special form of physical therapy called facial retraining, which entails a specific program designed to retrain facial muscles for movement and expression following facial nerve paralysis. The objectives of facial retraining...
retroauricular pain, andsynkinesisare hallmarks of peripheral facialneuropathyand do not occur with centralfacial weakness. Facialmyokymiais a chronic flickering contraction of the orbicularis occuli or other muscles of facial expression caused by injury to thefacial nerveorcorticobulbar tractswithin thebra...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to observe the expression of ciliary neurotrophic factors (CNTFs) in the facial motor neurons in rats during facial nerve regeneration. METHODS: The expression amount of CNTFs in eight groups was determined with immunohistochemical staining and image analysis. ...