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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://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/15840-transcutaneous-electrical-nerve-stimulation-tens

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://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sciatica/symptoms-causes/syc-20377435#:~:text=The%20sciatic%20nerves%20branches%20from,one%20side%20of%20your%20body.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12792-sciatica