Sasaki and his team are particularly interested in the longest nerve in the body — the vagus nerve — which connects vital peripheral organs such as the heart, lungs and digestive system to the ...

Your vagus nerve helps regulate digestion, breathing, heart rate, and your stress response. Stimulating this nerve could also help you regain a sense of calm in stressful circumstances.

Inflammation is the body’s response to injury and infection. To better understand how the body’s nerves and neurons detect ...

The vagus nerve is a critical part of the nervous system that connects the brain to various organs, including the heart, ...

The researchers used advanced calcium imaging techniques to observe the activity of individual sensory neurons within the nodose ganglion, a cluster of nerve cells that forms part of the vagus nerve.

A large number of computational models of information processing in the basal ganglia have been developed in recent years. Prominent in these are actor-critic models ...

A recent study in an animal model provides direct evidence for the role of the vagus nerve in gut microbiome-brain communication, addressing a critical gap in the field. Some health problems ...

Imagine you’re on your first roller-coaster ride at the tender age of 10: The anticipatory thrill. The whoosh of air that ...

To better understand how the body’s nerves and neurons detect inflammation, researchers at Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have shown how vagus nerve immune ...

During this period of cultural chaos, the most important thing we can do for ourselves and each other is to avoid the autonomic nervous system's freeze response. Source: Lisa Langhammer/used with ...