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.

Pairing targeted vagus nerve stimulation with physical therapy seems to help people who are partially paralysed from spinal cord injuries regain the ability to perform some everyday activities ...

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 group of Texas-based researchers has developed an effective way to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that involves zapping the vagus nerve around the neck, using a device the size of a ...

Comunicação Breve Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia Associated with Cardiac Syncope Jorge Elias, Ricardo Kuniyoshi, Wilson Valadão, Hermes Carloni, Mauricio Rocha Borges, Carlos Alberto Peixoto, Derval ...

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

The glossopharyngeal nerve is among a few nerves that contain motor, sensory, and parasympathetic fibers. It participates in multiple functions, and injuries or diseases affecting it can adversely ...

Causes Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is typically caused by a compressed nerve, damage to a blood vessel supplying a nerve, or a deterioration of the protective sheath covering the nerve (such as occurs ...

A diagram of the cranial nerves, including the glossopharyngeal nerve (lower right). Zhabska T. / Getty Images Once diagnosed, the condition can be treated with medication.

There's no one cause for glossopharyngeal neuralgia, said Dr. MaryAnn Mays, a neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic who was not ...

The vagus nerve originates from four clusters of neurons in the brain’s medulla, where the brainstem attaches to the spinal cord. Most nerves in our body branch directly from the spinal cord ...