It’s the 11th of the 12 cranial nerves and is often referred to as CN XI. While its official classification is as a cranial nerve, relaying information between the brain and parts of the body, it ...

It is connected to two electrodes, extending from the device in front of the chest to behind the ear, and then from the posterior brain to the anterior side of the brain, passing through the nerve ...

The parasympathetic preganglionic neurons are located in the nuclei of the four cranial nerves n. oculomotorius (III), n. facialis (VII), n. glossopharyngeus (IX) and n. vagus (X) in the brain stem.