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

Nick Fournie was 24 years old when severe depression upended his life. Fournie had been married to his longtime sweetheart ...

CMS has balked at covering vagus nerve stimulation for treatment-resistant depression. Positive results from an ...

A sham-controlled trial strengthens the evidence that transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation is safe and effective ...

The vagus nerve “has over 100,000 individual nerves ... for the Advancement of Research in Resistant Mood and Affective Disorders at Washington University in St. Louis. The device is implanted ...

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

In addition, research suggests that stimulating the vagus nerve can decrease intestinal permeability in IBD and other gastrointestinal disorders. “When VNS is used in animals in the lab ...

Each participant was implanted with a device that stimulates the left vagus nerve — a major conduit between the brain and the internal organs — but only half the devices were turned on.

HealthDay News — Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) reduces insomnia severity, according to a study ...