Ear to the Ground (news & ideas that integrate auricular)

With a schematic explaining the effects of vagus nerve and spinal cord stimulations on neural networks, Edgerton and Gad present a short review of the implications of the vagus nerve being able to mediate the time-dependent plasticity of an array of sensorimotor networks. Considering and based on findings by Ganzer et al., they summarize four fundamental biological concepts regarding the vagus nerve. “The vagus nerve mediates physiological systems (including sensorimotor and autonomic system...