Vagus nerve stimulation is a newly studied methodology to regulate the body’s stress and recovery systems. Access to this treatment approach was limited to specific clinical conditions given the costs ...

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 ...

Caloric stimulation is a procedure used to find damage to nerves in the ear. Although people commonly associate the term calorie with food, a calorie is fundamentally a unit of heat. During caloric ...

Virtual reality and the cumbersome goggles that go with it was a big theme at SXSW this year. Personally, I liked the less goggle heavy option like what Lumo Interactive offered with its interactive ...

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 ...

Stimulating nerves in your ear could improve the health of your heart, researchers have discovered. Scientists used a standard TENS machine like those designed to relieve labour pains to apply ...

A new study, published in the journal Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, show that controlled stimulation of the ear canal may help reduce symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Read on to know more. The ...

A noninvasive device (IB-Stim) delivering percutaneous electrical nerve field stimulation to the external ear safely reduced abdominal pain and improved quality of life in adolescents with irritable ...

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 ...