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.

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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 ...

In the inflammatory reflex, sensory input elicited by infection or injury travels through the afferent vagus nerve to integrative regions in the brainstem, and efferent nerves carry outbound ...

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is approved by the FDA as an option to treat epilepsy and treatment-resistant depression. However, experts at University of Utah Health recommend you get a thorough ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...