It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping ...

Take a brief scan on Amazon and you’ll find hundreds of products promising to stimulate the vagus nerve. From vibrating ...

But how we respond is where we have choices. A dysregulated nervous system—when the heart rate variability is low, the vagal nerve is not activating, and the thinking part of the brain is not properly ...

Conduite à tenir face à un malaise vagal Il n'est pas possible, dans la phase initiale d'un malaise vagal, d'exclure une autre cause de malaise d'origine cardio-vasculaire ou neurologique ; par ...

Because information flows both to and from the brain via vagal pathways, the vagus nerve can be thought of as a major mind-body highway. The many branches of the vagus nerve are increasingly seen ...

A beginner's guide to a nervous system reset. Image: iStock The first practical approach to building vagal tone is through co-regulation. Despite society’s messages that we need to tough life ...

In short, it helps our bodies restore homeostasis or equilibrium. Instances of ‘low vagal tone’ (a condition when the vagus nerve is not firing well) are associated with slower physical and ...

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For example, a large cluster of vagal neurons clings like a vine to the carotid artery in your neck. Its nerve fibers follow this network of blood vessels throughout your body to reach vital organs, ...

The brainstem receives vagal afferents from the gut and has projections to the hypothalamus, particularly the ARC. Within the ARC, there are orexigenic coexpressing neuropeptide Y/Agouti gene ...