Eleven children with KD (nine boys, two girls; age, 8.6 ± 6.1 y; range, 0.5–16.1 y) were studied with 123 I-MIBG and stressed 201 Tl (either exercise or dipyridamole stress) single-photon emission ...

Researchers in UB's Center for Research in Cardiovascular Medicine have received $1.85 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study the role of abnormal cardiac sympathetic-nerve ...

Researchers have mapped the complex nerve pathways that supply brown adipose tissue, otherwise known as ‘brown fat'. It’s the first step in developing a way of stimulating the nerves to burn fat as a ...

A new study has found that during exercise, the vagus nerve, essential to the body’s ‘rest and digest’ response, has a more important role in heart function than we thought. The findings could be ...

Auricular vagal neuromodulation therapy is a non-invasive and non-surgical treatment that could aid cardiovascular disease ...

The vagus nerve, the longest nerve in the body, originates in the brainstem and extends down into the abdomen. It monitors and receives information about the functioning of the heart, lungs, and other ...

We've all had the feeling. You're embarrassed and then there it is: a warm flush creeping up your neck and across your cheeks. The more you think about it, the hotter and redder you get. If someone ...

This follow-up post is a personal perspective that filters the latest vagus nerve research on how exercise affects cardiac vagal nerve activity through my lived experience as a long-distance runner ...