Vagus nerve damage or injury can lead you to develop various medical conditions. These include problems with speech or ...

Vagus nerve stimulation may help alleviate the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), suggests a new study. According to a team of researchers at Duke University School of Medicine ...

Getting to know your vagus nerve could help you manage feelings of stress and anxiety. Here’s everything you need to know. One of the key areas of focus to emerge from this trend has been the ...

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An innovative new trial at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow aims to compensate for the damage to the brain by stimulating a key nerve in the body, the vagus nerve. This nerve runs from the ...

What may be new to us, at least in terminology, is the knowledge that one particular nerve group, called the vagus nerve, helps us counterbalance our flight or fight response. The vagus nerve is ...

Here’s how ‘vagus nerve icing’ could help you to calm down before bed. One such ‘hack’ is ‘vagus nerve icing’ to ease anxiety. The technique, which was originally outlined in a ...

A new study led by Luis Ulloa, PhD, and Wei Yang, PhD, reveals how electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve-;a major nerve connecting the brain and gut-;may combat the stress-related inflammation ...

WASHINGTON — An implantable vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device effectively treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients who had previously failed at least one biologic or ...