Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stimulating your vagus nerve could help you live longer. A top scientist shares 3 easy things he does to activate his. The vagus ...

Could a small electric pulse help painful joints by working the muscles around them? For people with osteoarthritis, that question matters because movement is often the treatment they are told to do, ...

As a noninvasive neuromodulation method, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) shows great potential to treat a range of mental and psychiatric diseases, including major depression. Stimulating the ...

With the rapid growth of the population aged 65 years and older and the increased risk of cognitive decline associated with advanced age, there is a mounting need to identify the potential mechanisms ...

The spinal cord is the control cable that connects the brain to the rest of the body. If it is severed, people lose the ability to move their body below the site of the injury. But if it is only ...

A trial enrolled nine individuals with PTSD and used a next-generation miniaturized system to deliver vagus nerve stimulation.

An estimated 595 million people globally are living with osteoarthritis. This makes it one of the leading causes of pain and disability. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, in which ...

Dr. Kevin Tracey has studied the vagus nerve and its link to inflammation for decades.Matthew V. Libassi/ Getty Images Psychotherapists, yoga teachers, and self-help types such as Mel Robbins have ...

Psychotherapists, yoga teachers, and self-help types such as Mel Robbins have been talking about stimulating the vagus nerve as a way to "reset" the nervous system and calm anxiety for years. But ...