Kevin Tracey is a pioneer of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) research. Since the early 2000s, his team at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has been rigorously investigating VNS ...

Nerve damage and a buildup of immune cells in the cornea may be a sign of "long COVID," a long-term syndrome that emerges in some people after COVID-19 infection, a new study suggests. These ...

About half of a small group of patients with fibromyalgia -- a common syndrome that causes chronic pain and other symptoms -- was found to have damage to nerve fibers in their skin and other evidence ...

Small Fiber Neuropathy (SFN) is a disorder in which the small diameter sensory myelinated (Aδ) and unmyelinated (C fiber) nerves of the peripheral nervous system are damaged. The peripheral nervous ...

The rate of retinal nerve fiber layer loss is 2.5 times greater in eyes that develop visual field damage than in eyes that do not develop visual field damage, a study found. The prospective study ...

Nashville, Tennessee — Bariatric surgery may restore sudomotor and cardiac autonomic-nerve dysfunction to near normal in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, preliminary data from a new study suggest.

Small fiber neuropathy occurs as a result of damage to the small fibers of the peripheral nervous system. Damage to the peripheral nervous system that affects the small fibers can cause burning pain ...