Containing both sensory and motor fibers, the vagus nerve is in charge of both sensations and movement. Through its many branches, it controls swallowing and speech. It carries the sense of taste ...

Despite the importance of interoception, it remains much less understood than exteroception, which deals with the processing of sensory ... the longest nerve in the body — the vagus nerve ...

Containing both sensory and motor fibers, the vagus nerve is in charge of both sensations and movement. Through its many branches, it controls swallowing and speech. It carries the sense of taste ...

“Your vagus nerve is busy 24/7 sending messages to let ... It is relying on the signals coming up from your sensory systems to let it know how everything is going. “We now know that irritable ...

Something strange is happening inside hardware stores across the world, prompting health experts to weigh in on the bizarre ...

Implantable vagus nerve stimulation devices have long been used to treat epilepsy, depression and stroke. A new crop of buzzy non-invasive VNS gadgets, like the one shown here from Truvaga ...

In the inflammatory reflex, sensory input elicited by infection or injury travels through the afferent vagus nerve to integrative regions in the brainstem, and efferent nerves carry outbound ...

A team led by researchers at Georgia State University has identified a novel group of neurons controlling the brain-heart-gut ...

Here’s how ‘vagus nerve icing’ could help you to calm down before bed. One such ‘hack’ is ‘vagus nerve icing’ to ease anxiety. The technique, which was originally outlined in a ...