On the flipside of fight-or-flight is rest-and-digest. It’s the body’s way of rebalancing itself after the danger has passed.

A new study published in Food Quality and Preference suggests that the way our bodies signal hunger and fullness might be ...

The vagus nerve is the body’s longest cranial nerve, extending from the brain to the gut, says Dr. Janna Gordon-Elliott, a psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

A novel therapy involving electrical pulses to the vagus nerve might unlock the brain’s hidden potential to rewire itself, ...

Implantable vagus nerve stimulation devices have long been used to treat epilepsy, depression and stroke. A new crop of buzzy non-invasive VNS gadgets promises to relieve stress and improve sleep.

When Dawn Steiner awoke one morning with joint pain so severe she couldn't even lift her arms, she knew something was wrong.

T he vagus nerve is a vine of nerve fibers with roots in nearly every organ and shoots in the brain. It helps us detect a racing heart, rising blood pressure, stomachache, discomfort, an ...

The vagus nerve is essential to many bodily processes, including digestion and a steady heart rate. Stimulating it could help prevent or stop chronic inflammation, which is linked to disease.

The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole new medical field. A certain amount of inflammation after injury or ...

Vagus nerve stimulation might offer a way to augment or replace drug treatment, doctors say. Sponsor Message "Neural signals have the ability to reflexively control aspects of the immune system ...

Vagus nerve stimulation therapy improved the symptoms of treatment-resistant depression for nearly 500 participants in a major clinical trial.