The vagus nerve is the 10th of 12 pairs of cranial nerves, which emerge from the brain stem and run down each side of the body. They contain a major portion of the parasympathetic nervous system ...

Communication between the body and the nervous system is called interoception and it allows the brain to sense internal states, such as hunger, pain, or heart rate. The vagus nerve is an important ...

Three nerves carry taste signals to the brain stem: the chorda tympani nerve (from the front of the tongue), the glossopharyngeal nerve (from the back of the tongue) and the vagus nerve (from the ...

What Is the Vagus Nerve? Most people don’t know the vagus nerve by name. It runs from the base of your brain, through your neck and down each side of your body. (Vagus means “wandering” in Latin.) The ...

which then stimulates the vagus nerve. That sends a signal to the brain, activating the brain stem and causing the release of several key chemicals onto the surface of the brain. It is thought ...

Research has shown that HSV-1, the virus responsible for cold sores, can spread into specific areas of the brain and may ...

particularly the vagus nerve, using electrical pulses affects neural activity in the mammalian brain. The vagus nerve, the longest cranial nerve in the human body, is known to play a key role in ...

Induced pluripotent stem cells ... the gut–visceral nerve–brain axis and study of the propagation of pathogenic proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease along the vagus nerve.

Here are five. Researchers believe that gut bacteria improves brain function partly by improving the functioning of the vagus nerve. For instance, research published in Advances in Experimental ...