The vagus nerve is one of 13 nerves that leave the brain directly through special holes in the skull. From there it sprouts thickets of branches that reach almost everywhere in the head and trunk.

More information: David G. S. Farmer et al, Firing properties of single axons with cardiac rhythmicity in the human cervical vagus nerve, The Journal of Physiology (2024). DOI: 10.1113/JP286423 ...

In 2020, Professor Vaughan Macefield’s team at Monash University achieved a world-first by recording signals from the human vagus nerve in vivo. Previously, direct recordings could only be obtained ...

The vagus nerve is essential to many bodily processes, including digestion and a steady heart rate. Stimulating it could help prevent or stop chronic inflammation, which is linked to disease.

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 ...

Vagus nerve stimulation might offer a way to augment or replace drug treatment, doctors say. ... Stavros Zanos is in charge of a team that has been mapping the human vagus nerve, ...

Much of the contemporary research on the vagus nerve has been done at the Feinstein Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, one of the institutes Tracey supervises. Dr. Stavros Zanos is in charge of a ...

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 ...