the isolation fluid was injected into the carotid sheath to safeguard the vagus nerve, carotid artery, and internal jugular vein. In the MWA procedure, the needle tip of the 17 G MWA antenna was ...

There are two electrodes on the business end. I find my carotid artery. The vagus nerve travels in the same sheath as the carotid artery, and I hold it and it’s programmed to run for two minutes.

Vagus nerve resets are trending across social media but experts warn these trends are skewing the truth about neurology and mood (Pulsetto) ...

It can help with hard-to-treat depression or anxiety, Nelson says. Vagus nerve stimulation is another procedure that might be helpful, especially for people with the most severe depression or ...

"The nice thing about vagus nerve stimulation, we know from other studies, is that when the patient responds, the effects usually stick," says Conway.

They include Pulsetto, a vagus nerve stimulator that wraps around the neck to prompt “rest and digest” mode and help with sleep and anxiety when used for four minutes morning and night ...

Credit: Getty Images We spoke with Mark Richardson, MD, PhD, and John Tesser, MD, to discuss vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment RA and results of the pivotal RESET-RA trial. While disease ...

Summary: New research reveals that the vagus nerve, which helps regulate appetite, interacts with socio-economic status to influence eating behavior. In a chocolate tasting study, participants from ...

Published in the journal Food Quality and Preference, the research highlights how physiological signals, particularly those transmitted via the vagus nerve, interact with socio-economic factors to ...

In this way, every patient with a stroke due to carotid artery narrowing can receive a tailor-made risk-based treatment. That saves many patients a major operation and lowers health care costs.

A risky carotid artery operation, currently still the standard treatment for many patients, may then no longer be necessary for this group of patients. This research, published today in the Lancet ...