Major depressive disorder has been making headlines recently, but many of us don't actually know much about the condition.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to brain health, the vagus nerve might not always be top of mind. But this mighty nerve serves an important function ...

The vagus nerve serves as the brakes on your sympathetic nervous system, helping the body calm down from a stressed state to a more relaxed, maintenance state. Surgically implanted vagus nerve ...

A trial enrolled nine individuals with PTSD and used a next-generation miniaturized system to deliver vagus nerve stimulation.

Various diseases can be treated by stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear with electrical signals. However, this technique does not always work. A study has now shown: The electrical signals must be ...

We compared Nuropod, gammaCore, Pulsetto, and Sensate across science, safety, stimulation method, usability, hidden costs, and long-term value.

Nervonik, Inc., a medical technology company developing a next-generation peripheral nerve stimulation platform for chronic pain, today announced it is expanding its leadership team with the addition ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in vagus nerve stimulation. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection ...

Some health problems, including chronic pain, inflammation and neurological diseases, can be treated by nerve stimulation, for example, with the help of electrodes that are attached to the ear and ...

Dysphagia, a severe comorbidity of many neurological diseases, often lacks targeted therapies. This critical review assessed ...

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