When it comes to brain health, the vagus nerve might not always be top of mind. But this mighty nerve serves an important function: It sends information between your brain and other vital organs, and ...

The Truvaga Plus is a handheld, battery-powered device you place on your neck to stimulate your vagus nerve. Each session is ...

While I’ve also loved using the other Vibes, these two are my go-to’s that keep me coming back to my Apollo Neuro night after ...

ZenoWell offers two devices designed to target the vagus nerve. We tried both to see how their claims that they can boost ...

A neck implant designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis provides automatic therapy that lasts one minute per day.

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. An ...

Everyone is a big bundle of nerves. No, that’s not a description of the current pervasive sense of anxiety many people in America feel these days; rather, it’s an anatomical description of how the ...

Unlike some vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) devices that are surgically implanted, transcutaneous VNS (tcVNS), which is used for PTSD, is noninvasive and painless: the device is simply held against the ...

Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS)—using a handheld device that delivers a mild electrical current through the skin of the neck in two-minute applications that stimulate the vagus nerve—was ...

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 ...

Paper supports use of nVNS as a front-line therapy for acute and preventative treatment of cluster headache and as an effective option for the treatment of migraine headache BASKING RIDGE, N.J., July ...

After enduring years of severe gastrointestinal distress that made him want to stay home and close to a bathroom, Joseph Beinlich was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2019. He was 11 years old. To ...