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

Compression or traction of the globe or adnexa creates a stimulus that travels via the trigeminal nerve (afferent arm) to the vagus nerve (efferent arm). Vagal stimulation initiates a cascade of ...

Various forms of massage may help rebalance activity in the vagus nerve. For instance, research published in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine found that massaging the reflex areas in ...

Their first paper, ‘The Inflammatory Reflex’, published in Nature in 2002, tested the theory by stimulating the vagus nerve ...

Getting to know your vagus nerve could help you manage feelings of stress and anxiety. Here’s everything you need to know. One of the key areas of focus to emerge from this trend has been the ...

In the inflammatory reflex, sensory input elicited by infection or injury travels through the afferent vagus nerve to integrative regions in the brainstem, and efferent nerves carry outbound ...

Kevin J. Tracey, MD, was elected to the Academy for his groundbreaking discoveries in vagus nerve stimulation, the inflammatory reflex and bioelectronic medicine Dr. Kevin J. Tracey was elected to ...