MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -You have two main types of nerves: Sensory nerves carry signals to your brain to help you touch, taste, smell and see. Motor nerves carry signals to your muscles or glands to help you move and function.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are three types of peripheral nerves: motor, sensory and autonomic. Some neuropathies affect all three types of nerves, while others involve only one or two.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are basically two major types of nerves: sensory and motor. Sensory nerves send information such as touch, temperature, and pain to the brain and spinal cord. Motor nerves send signals from the brain back into the muscles, causing them to contract either voluntarily or reflexively.

Detailed explanation-4: -The spinal nerves carry both sensory and motor messages and are called “mixed nerves.” Among the cranial nerves are five pairs of motor nerves, three pairs of sensory nerves, and four pairs of mixed nerves.

Detailed explanation-5: -Three of the nerves are associated with the special senses of smell, vision, hearing, and equilibrium and have only sensory fibers. Five other nerves are primarily motor in function but do have some sensory fibers for proprioception.