A team of researchers has shown that noninvasive electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve through the ear can reverse memory ...

A study from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine at OU Health Sciences shows that stimulating the body's longest nerve through a clip on the ear significantly lessens the woozy symptoms of ...

A new study has found the non-invasive application of in-ear electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve to be safe and effective in reducing osteoarthritis-related knee pain. It opens the door to ...

The vagus nerve is called the "wandering nerve" because it's the longest nerve in the human body and travels from the base of the brain up into the ears and down into the lower intestines. In recent ...

Vagus nerve stimulation may treat many diseases by changing brain signals, inflammation, and organ communication.

"It's easier to put your elbow in your ear" is a time-tested way to describe the impossibility of any given task. But the route to easing knee pain might indeed wend through the ear, a new study says.

Stimulating the vagus nerve with a device attached to the outer ear can help make compassion meditation training more effective at boosting people's capacity for self-kindness and mindfulness, finds a ...

The brain has long been regarded as the organ that underlies consciousness and, therefore, as the primary organ in the definition of identity. The symbolic centrality that the brain holds among other ...

Could our ‘internal communication superhighway’ hold the key to mental and physical wellbeing?

From VN stimulators to cold exposure, this is how to harness the body's off-switch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those of us of a certain age know the topic of conversation with friends often turns to the state of our health. But next time you ...

The vagus nerve is called the "wandering nerve" because it's the longest nerve in the human body and travels from the base of the brain up into the ears and down into the lower intestines. In recent ...