Synchronizing vagus nerve stimulation with natural body rhythms, such as the heartbeat and breathing, significantly improves ...

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 ...

The team that first recorded vagus nerve signals in humans has now isolated ... informing the brain about cardiovascular ...

"We found that the distances between individual EECs that contain serotonin and vagal afferent nerve endings ... tracing from the sensory nerve cell bodies of the vagus nerve, which lie just ...

Implantable vagus nerve stimulation devices have long been used to treat epilepsy, depression and stroke. A new crop of buzzy non-invasive VNS gadgets, like the one shown here from Truvaga ...

Projects focus on: 1) How the cytokine signal reaches the brain to alter neural activity. The major theme is that cytokines can activate peripheral afferent nerves such as the vagus, thereby ...