The Vagus Nerve’s Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled ...

Vagus nerve stimulation therapy improved the symptoms of treatment-resistant depression for nearly 500 participants in a ...

Study suggests cytomegalovirus may travel via the vagus nerve to the brain, contributing to Alzheimer's progression.

Blood sugar and insulin levels also depend on the vagus nerve. As blood sugar levels rise, the vagus nerve stimulates the ...

The trial was investigating the use of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an autoimmune ...

“If we can augment what signals are going through the vagus nerve [with VNS], we can activate certain pathways that turn down inflammation signals. If we can help restore an ...

Researchers stimulated the vagus nerve in healthy volunteers and showed it triggered blood clot formation, which they say could be used to prevent blood loss after surgery.

The vagus nerve “has over 100,000 individual nerves ... but the therapy likely works through multiple pathways, experts said. “If we look at VNS as a modulator of the central nervous system ...

A new study suggests that a gut-infecting virus may play a key role in the development of Alzheimer's disease by traveling to ...