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Given the anti-inflammatory effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) and its ability to promote brain plasticity, taVNS has emerged as a promising therapeutic option for SAH ...

It also stimulates the vagus nerve which runs from the head ... helping it shift to a “rest and digest” state which can reduce inflammation, according to Mayo Clinic. Another exercise to ...

Researchers at Arizona University in the US found the virus may linger in the gut and travel to the brain via the vagus nerve that connects ... may lead to chronic inflammation and neuronal ...

measurable improvements in depressive symptoms, quality of life and functional outcomes," study co-author Charles Conway said. "The nice thing about vagus nerve stimulation, we know from other ...

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Assessments were conducted for roughly ten months, after which participants who received the stimulation treatment showed improvements in their depressive symptoms, in their quality of life ... "The ...

While most children and adults experience mild symptoms with RVS, infants less than a year old can experience more severe inflammation symptoms, which can cause bronchiolitis or pneumonia that can ...

In 2005, vagus nerve stimulation expanded to relieve depressive symptoms that did not respond ... bacteria into the bloodstream that leads to inflammation by altering the gut biome and changing ...