Grounding without the effort.

For patients with dementia, postoperative delirium can accelerate long-term cognitive decline. Vagus nerve stimulation could ...

No one likes feeling stressed out. But what if you had a “calm-down” channel running through your body that you could switch ...

In severe treatment-resistant depression, long-term data show VNS benefits not only persist for 2 years but also continue to emerge in late responders.

When Dawn Steiner awoke one morning with joint pain so severe she couldn’t even lift her arms, she knew something was wrong. Though she didn’t realize it at the time, she was experiencing symptoms of ...

More than 20% of all patients treated with the implant had essentially no symptoms of depression after two years, researchers ...

The vagus nerve is getting a lot of attention online these days. As just one of 12 paired cranial nerves, you may wonder what’s so special about it. But if you’ve seen people on social media sharing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those of us of a certain age know the topic of conversation with friends often turns to the state of our health. But next time you ...

When it comes to brain health, the vagus nerve might not always be top of mind. But this mighty nerve serves an important function: It sends information between your brain and other vital organs, and ...

Depending on the degree of impairment, motor rehabilitation training led by a trained therapist is the most effective therapy for helping individuals regain lost skills. According to the CDC, someone ...

Tiny pulses of electricity may provide the next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. The pulses would be delivered via implanted devices that stimulate the vagus nerve, and they ...

The FDA approved external trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS) in 2019 as the first non-drug device for treating ADHD, ...