A team of international scientists has made a major leap forward in diabetes research by successfully 3D printing functional ...

Patients with occipital headache experienced relief with 60 days of peripheral nerve stimulation, according to data presented ...

Vagal nerve stimulation was reported to reduce Aβ-induced measures of anxiety and depression (Yesiltepe et al. 2022) improved performance on cognitive tests of spatial memory and learning (Yu et al., ...

In 1997 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) device that can be surgically implanted under the collarbone and linked to a wire wrapped around the nerve.

However, when the hepatic vagal afferent nerve (HVAN) – which creates a channel of two-way communication between the brain and the liver – was severed, the overeating behavior in these mice ...

Purely efferent nerves work in the opposite way, transmitting impulses that control motor movement from the brain to the muscles. Some cranial nerves have both afferent and efferent functions.

Electrical signals from the central nervous system, which relay instructions for movement, can then pass between these muscles, and be detected by electrodes in a newly installed prosthetic limb ...

This, in turn, can trigger action potential impulses that rapidly propagate up the afferent nerve toward the brain. “Protons have never been previously reported as principal transmitters in any ...

The vagus nerve, nicknamed the “wandering” nerve due to its widespread distribution throughout the body, plays a pivotal role in our internal communication system. By relaying sensory information from ...

Afferent nerves transmit signals from the body to the brain, and in response, efferent nerves relay instructions from the brain to our organs.