Someone can get on your nerves. You can have nerves of steel. Heck, nerves can even be frayed! But have you ever wondered what nerves actually are? If so, you've come to the right place!
Someone can get on your nerves. You can have nerves of steel. Heck, they can even be frayed! But have you ever wondered what nerves actually are? If so, you've come to the right place!
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[Truth or Fail]
Electric rays/low voltages to treat painful nerves
https://www.mjrheum.org/assets/files/792/file60_974.pdf
https://arthritis.ca/living-well/2019/women,-arthritis-and-neuropathic-pain
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/transcutaneous-electrical-nerve-stimulation-tens/
Mouse tail galvanoscope (sciatic nerve)
https://books.google.com/books?id=SJNMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/brightfield/mousetail.html
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=85&contentid=p01382
Electrically stimulating tastebuds
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1307523/
http://longevity3.stanford.edu/design-challenge-winners-announced/
[Trivia Question]
Glaucoma retinal nerve fiber layer
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00417-022-05619-4
[Fact Off]
C. elegans auditory nerves
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220223103054.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/928925
[Ask the Science Couch]
Paresthesia aka pins and needles
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=58
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Paresthesia-Information-Page
https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2015/march/paraesthesia-and-peripheral-neuropathy
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735610362950
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5384201/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/107385840200800209
[Butt One More Thing]
Sciatic butt nerve
https://www.scielo.br/j/acb/a/rwFj4BBy4p35XbfKDLNFLkx/?lang=en
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12792-sciatica