Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to brain health, the vagus nerve might not always be top of mind. But this mighty nerve serves an important function ...

Major depressive disorder has been making headlines recently, but many of us don't actually know much about the condition.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all have two vagus nerves—one on the left side of the body and one on the right—both of which connect the brain to the ...

Illustration of the vagus nerve. (Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Depression affects more than 300 million of us, and sometimes, treatment works. It may take a few attempts to ...

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 ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in vagus nerve stimulation. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection ...

An experimental device that stimulates a key nerve connecting the heart and brain can improve fitness and exercise tolerance, according to research published in the European Heart Journal. Using a ...

In 1997, the FDA approved implanted vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) devices as an adjunctive therapy for reducing the frequency and severity of epileptic seizures in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy patients ...

The vagus nerve serves as the brakes on your sympathetic nervous system, helping the body calm down from a stressed state to a more relaxed, maintenance state. Surgically implanted vagus nerve ...

A vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device that hooks onto the ear shows promise as a new, non-invasive treatment for indigestion. Researchers at Harvard Medical School recently discovered that patients ...