Vagus means wandering, and the vagus nerve, after it leaves the base of the brain, sends branches to the ears, the throat, the heart, the lungs, and the digestive tract, with stops along the way ...

Vagus means wandering, and the vagus nerve, after it leaves the base of the brain, sends branches to the ears, the throat, the heart, the lungs, and the digestive tract, with stops along the way ...

Auricular tVNS stimulate nerves in the ear that comprise the auricular branch of the vagus nerve. With cervical tVNS, you hold the device right to the skin right by the nerve in the neck near the jaw.

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

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

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.

With a non-invasive, handheld device, which is being investigated for treating IBD, electrical stimulation is administered through the skin to either the right or left branches of the vagus nerve ...

The mechanisms of VNS are associated with the anatomy of the vagus nerve. Vagus nerve fibers have four projection areas in the brainstem, including the nucleus ambiguus (NA) and dorsal motor nucleus ...

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.