Research Notes: The Vagus Nerve
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The Vagus Nerve is captain of the parasympathetic nervous system. It serves to regulates heart rate, bronchoconstriction, digestion, and the innate immune response.
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Research Notes: Acupuncture and Migraines
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Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is being embraced by the medical community. This is in part because it is a non-pharmacological therapeutic intervention that is simple to carry out, economical, and has very few side effects. One area that is being explored is the use of acupuncture to decrease the individual’s headache frequency, intensity, duration and acute medication requirements.
Read MoreBrief Research Notes: Medical Acupuncture
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Acknowledging that traditional narratives outdated, medical acupuncture is an approach that is based upon a theory that is inline current scientific understanding of how the body works. Reframing acupuncture form of peripheral nerve stimulation technique in which acupuncture needles are inserted into anatomically defined sites, and stimulated manually or with electricity
Read MoreThe future of bioelectronic medicine is bright
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I have been revisiting my notes on neuromodulation after his group released a very promising research study that looked at the effects of vagus nerve stimulation for Rheumatoid Arthritis. This was a landmark study that demonstrated for the first time that vagus nerve stimulation inhibits TNF production and attenuates inflammation in humans.
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