This happens automatically when a person looks at near or far objects. The trochlear nerve also has a role in eye movement. The trochlear nerve, like the oculomotor nerve, originates in the midbrain.

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When it comes to brain health, the vagus nerve might not always be top of mind. But this mighty nerve serves an important function: It sends information between your brain and other vital organs ...

Scientists in Switzerland recently identified how the vagus nerve conveys threatening “gut feelings” to the brain. The vagus nerve is known as the "wandering nerve" because it has multiple ...

The trochlear nerve is one of six cranial nerves that carry electrical impulses from the brain to the eye. It controls the movements of the superior oblique muscle, which helps your eye move down ...

These palsies can be caused by a lesion in the brain stem ... up and inward direction (Crossman and Neary, 2019); Trochlear nerve palsy – results in an inability to move the eye in an inwards and ...

More than five patellar dislocations may increase patients’ risk for trochlear chondral damage. Image: Adobe Stock Among the cohort, 580 patients (61.8%) had a chondral lesion. Lesions were ...

For OCT, an optic nerve lesion was defined as an intereye thickness asymmetry (IEA) of at least 5 μm for peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) and at least 4 μm for ganglion cell and ...

Lesions of the third nerve in the cavernous sinus and superior orbital fissure often involve other cranial nerves, including the trochlear nerve, abducens nerve, V1 branch of the trigeminal nerve, and ...

A presumptive diagnosis of acute left sixth cranial nerve palsy associated with cerebral ... the detection of granulomatous lesions on histologic examination, the ANCA serotype (in which PR3 ...