Vagus nerve stimulation

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2016). Yoga can also help in controlling disordered eating and weight. It may also be useful for alleviating menopause symptoms. The exercises in yoga can also help increase lymph drainage. Yoga according to Andrews (2016), may also stimulate the vagus nerve, and this can decrease seizure frequency in cases of epilepsy. For the best benefit however, yoga goes together with healthy nutrition. Poor diet result in people being fat from eating too many calories but under nourished from not eating…

There exists a direct correlation between the long term prognosis of patients with cardiovascular disease and heart rate recovery within the first minute after exercising. In group A there was a substantial reduction in resting heart rate. Stimulation of the vagus nerve results in a direct effect on both the sinus node, which is the hearts natural pace maker and the heart. It also shows considerate activity through pre and postsynaptic networks. Reducing the amount that the heart has to work and…

EPILEPSY: ADD TITLE Hunter Rolloff is not an ordinary 20 year old. According to the article, “Epilepsy Facts,” 1 in 26 Americans are diagnosed with Epilepsy. Hunter has epilepsy; he talked and walked like a healthy baby until he had encephalitis which is inflammation of the brain, at 14 months old. After being diagnosed with epilepsy, he lost the ability to talk and walk. After countless hours, weeks and months of therapy, he once again gained the ability to walk, but to this day he can say…

Current treatments in TLE. Current treatments of TLE include anti-epileptic drugs (AED), epileptic surgery, vagus nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation. Problems arise with each as they lack specificity in targeted cell populations, reducing the overall efficacy of the treatment and thus, resulting in poorly tolerated side effects. Current treatments do not have the ability…

Depression, a dark cloud of emotions. A sense of drowning. Depression, a feeling of being completely alone even when surrounded by people. It is something that is felt by so many people, yet isn’t as recognizable as many other disorders of today. You always hear about the people who are suffering from the physical illness but not the mental illnesses. Someone we love or who we see everyday could be suffering from this dreadful disorder and you wouldn’t know. It’s a feeling that can be…

Imagine having a disorder in which your mind is stuck on a topic and these thoughts will not go away. This thought just replays over and over in your mind. It wouldn’t matter what you do to try and rid these unwanted thoughts, but they just won’t budge and are constantly stuck in your mind. Not to mention these thoughts also include intense feelings of anxiety. You think you’re going crazy right? Intense feelings of anxiety may come along with these unwanted thoughts. Anxiety is your brain’s…

Desyrel for sleeping (Wurtzel, 1994; Durand & Barlow, 2016). Wurtzel writes in her book that “taking drugs breeds taking more drugs” (Wurtzel, 1994, loc. 275). Other forms of treatment include electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). ECT was the most controversial form of treatment of psychological disorders after psychosurgery (Durand & Barlow, 2016). ECT is considerably changed today and is safe and effective for treatment of extreme depression that does not…

There are many people around the world that experience health problems and illnesses. Some may be incurable, or the treatments aren’t guaranteed to completely take care of that certain health problem. On the other hand there are some that can be curable and treated. We all hear the words and types of diseases, but some don’t know the real scientific definition and how severe some may be. Seizures for instance, can be not that bad or they can be horrible. First I will better help you understand…

The three types of shock consist of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and vagus nerve stimulation (VNS). The most prominent form is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Electric shock is mainly used for major depression that hasn’t responded to standard treatments. “ECT is among the safest and most effective treatments available…