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

A yearlong trial of 493 adults, with an average age of 53, found vagus nerve stimulation therapy led to improvement in ...

A vagus nerve stimulation device was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nearly two decades ago for treatment-resistant depression, but it has not become widely available.

Nearly 20 years ago, knowing all other options had failed, Nick’s sister, a nurse, recommended he check out a new treatment called vagus nerve stimulation, or VNS. The US Food and Drug ...

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (TVNS) improved sleep quality significantly in a small, sham-controlled trial, substantially expanding a growing body of evidence supporting its ...

What does stimulating the vagus nerve do? Created with Sketch. Stimulation of the vagus nerve is medically well known as a means of regulating the excitability of nerve cells. It is currently used ...

A new study led by Luis Ulloa, PhD, and Wei Yang, PhD, reveals how electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve-;a major nerve connecting the brain and gut-;may combat the stress-related inflammation ...

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 ...

The trial was investigating the use of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an autoimmune condition that includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

Louis. The findings are published in a pair of papers in the journal Brain Stimulation. Each participant was implanted with a device that stimulates the left vagus nerve—a major conduit between ...