The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...

Yet there was a hidden connection that was only recently discovered, and it turns out to be quite important. The kind of irregular, ragged breathing that occurs in stressful situations is directly ...

Created with Sketch. The vagus nerve monitors and regulates heart rhythms and is responsible for the fluctuations in heart rate to meet the routine and unplanned demands that are part of everyday ...

Five people have now been examined in a pilot study. Their vagus nerve was electrically activated to lower their heart rate. It is already known from previous studies that heart rate is a ...

heart rate and digestion. “Vagus nerve stimulation pulls you out of that stressful physiologic state. It puts you into a more metabolically stable and healthy state,” Dr. Peter Staats ...

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 ...

The vagus nerve, a complex bundle of 200,000 fibers connecting the brain to vital organs, has remained a medical enigma for ...

It would take decades of research to make that happen. The vagus nerve is actually a pair of nerves, right and left, that connect the brain with internal organs including the heart, lungs, liver, gut, ...

New research provides direct evidence that the gut microbiome communicates with the brain through the vagus nerve.

A recent study in an animal model provides direct evidence for the role of the vagus nerve in gut microbiome-brain ...