US-based device company Nevro has secured market authorisation from the European Union (EU) for its HFX iQ spinal cord ...

LivaNova today announced that its OSPREY trial of nerve stimulation for treating sleep apnea met its primary endpoints.

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is approved by the FDA as an option to treat epilepsy and treatment-resistant depression. However, experts at University of Utah Health recommend you get a thorough ...

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a neuromodulation therapy, which means it’s a treatment that changes the patterns of activity of your nerves. Vagus nerve stimulation can treat epilepsy ...

The device doesn’t cause nerve cells in the brain to fire, but it makes it easier for them to be stimulated to work properly ...

Professor Chaffee and Professor Bovie discovered that all impulses passing along the optic nerve are rhythmical, that they go in a series of extremely rapid pulsation's or separate impulses ...

Deep brain stimulation can significantly reduce depressive ... A noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain, potentially improving mood and reducing ...

so it surprised the researchers that touch-sensing nerve cells responded to such stimulation. Further, this nerve cell type ...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive procedure ... TMS pushes electrical charge into nerve cells to alter their activity and communication. TMS increases or decreases neural ...

Recent neuroscience studies have been investigating how the stimulation of some nerves, particularly the vagus nerve, using electrical pulses affects neural activity in the mammalian brain.