The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from ...

The team that first recorded vagus nerve signals in humans has now isolated ... or controlling the rate of the heart beat (efferent neurons)," first author Dr. David Farmer said.

The vagus nerve is an important part of interoception that can have a profound effect on how we are feeling, even influencing emotions such as anxiety and depression. Although the link between ...

In 2020, Professor Vaughan Macefield’s team at Monash University achieved a world-first by recording signals from the human vagus nerve in vivo. Previously, direct recordings could only be obtained ...

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 ...

The clinical use of vagus nerve stimulation at 0.75 to 1.50 mA to reduce the frequency and severity of seizures in individuals with refractory epilepsy is gaining acceptance. These studies suggest ...

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a neuromodulation therapy, which means it’s a treatment that changes the patterns of activity of your nerves. Vagus nerve stimulation can treat epilepsy ...

Recent neuroscience studies have been investigating how the stimulation of some nerves, particularly the vagus nerve, using electrical pulses affects neural activity in the mammalian brain.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The vagus nerve is part of our relaxation system, and can modulate inflammation Scientists now hope to tap it and use it to treat ...