Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure, and fear.

The team that first recorded vagus nerve signals in humans has now isolated the electrical activity of individual neurons responsible for cardiovascular regulation.

Researchers from Monash University have isolated activity from individual neurons within the vagus nerve. Considering the firing activity of these neurons in the context of cardiac and respiratory ...

The next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis could be tiny pulses of electricity delivered to the vagus nerve.

Stimulating your vagus nerve could help you live longer. A top scientist shares 3 easy things he does to activate his.

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.

The next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis could be tiny pulses of electricity delivered to the 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 ...