Have you ever noticed how sometimes you feel completely at ease in social situations, while at other times, even a minor stressor can make you feel overwhelmed or shut down?

In clinical trials, almost 500 depression patients who were resistant to current treatments were given therapy that stimulated their vagus nerve. The majority of these patients had such serious ...

Pulsetto is a wearable device that uses vagus nerve stimulation to reduce stress and improve sleep. The device is non-invasive and works by sending electrical impulses to the vagus nerve ...

A recent study published in Psychophysiology provides new insights into how stimulating the vagus nerve through the ear might influence brain function. Researchers found that a single 30-minute ...

During my research on this connection, I was intrigued by the role of the vagus nerve, which offered answers into how and why the brain and body are so intricately connected. The vagus nerve, named ...

Multiple factors contribute to gallstone formation in this setting, including intraoperative injury to the hepatic branch of the vagus nerve, alterations in bile composition, reduced food intake, ...

Dear Doctors: I keep reading about how the vagus nerve has a lot to do with things like mood, digestion and keeping your brain healthy. Where is it located? Supposedly there is even a kind of ...

In their current study, which has been published in the journal eLife, the researchers investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result ...