Stimulating the vagus nerve with a device attached to the outer ear can help make compassion meditation training more ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill-sized device for treating rheumatoid arthritis, marking the first ...

An experimental device that stimulates a key nerve connecting the heart and brain can improve fitness and exercise tolerance, ...

SetPoint Medical's vagus nerve stimulator has received FDA approval for treating moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ...

Vagus nerve stimulation might offer a way to augment or replace drug treatment, doctors say. “Neural signals have the ability to reflexively control aspects of the immune system that frankly, nobody ...

Vagus nerve stimulation via the external ear using electronic devices has been shown to increase the "relaxation response" of the parasympathetic nervous system and reduce fight-or-flight stress ...

The FDA has approved a medical device that stimulates the vagus nerve for the treatment of moderate-to-severe rheumatoid ...

Today, a new study (Bretherton et al., 2019) from the University of Leeds reports that self-administered non-invasive transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) via the outer ear—performed ...

The right and left vagus nerve bundles each have more than 100,000 of these strands. "A lot of the fibers inform the brain about the inflammatory state of the entire body," Zanos says.

Next, Tracey's team learned how to stimulate the vagus nerve in a way that activates the anti-inflammation reflex. That allowed SetPoint Medical to develop an implantable stimulation device.