Ear to the Ground (news & ideas that integrate auricular)
Feeling for Healing: Neural states and their assessment
Can you change your state of wellbeing through positive thinking? Sure. But, positive thinking alone cannot overcome a negative autonomic state. In other words, you cannot simply think yourself into a better state, you need to feel it — even unconsciously — from signals deep within your brainstem. Individuals who are in a dysfunctional state of fight-or-flight, or shutdown — no matter their rational understanding of their own safety — have a very difficult time moving towards healing.[1-4] So...
Current Directions in the Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation I – A Physiological Perspective
Vagus nerve stimulation, and specifically auricular vagus nerve stimulation aVNS, are showing importance in modulation of brain function, reflex loops, and brain chemistry (as seen in treatment of epilepsy, stroke, depression and other disorders)...
Neuromodulation of nociceptive processing (as seen in experimental and clinical evidence of pain treatment/managent)
Modulation of autonomic function
Modulation of metabolic syndrome
Modulation of cardiovascular and cardioprotective effects
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