Now, a new crop of buzzy non-invasive VNS gadgets promises to relieve stress, sharpen focus and improve sleep in mere minutes ...

Through its huge role in stress and its relief, the vagus nerve influences inflammation. The stress response to threat ... to foster relaxation. In diaphragmatic breathing, the belly expands ...

When we are faced with a situation that causes extreme anxiety or fear, our body eagerly sounds the alarm for what's known as the fight-or-flight response. A racing heart, tense muscles, balled fists, ...

Medically reviewed by Raynetta Samuels, PT, DPT, CLTBreathing exercises can temporarily lower your blood pressure and heart ...

Deep breathing stimulates nasal passages, increasing nitric oxide levels, which aid vasodilation and strengthen the immune ...

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS ... found that the percent time in Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale response could not differentiate active from sham VNS. However, antidepressant benefits ...

Linear Movement Method, Gabriella Espinosa, and Breaking Ballet Founder, Sarah Aspinall, guide us through what a somatic ...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator ...