An knowledgeable’s new guide unravels the superb secrets and techniques of the vagus nerve

The Great Nerve
Kevin Tracey (Penguin on sale 13 May (US); 15 May (UK))

As a well being reporter, I repeatedly come throughout promising new clinical therapies. Many are thrilling, however few have intrigued me up to vagus nerve stimulation.

To perceive why, you first must take hold of simply how outstanding the vagus nerve is – and there’s almost certainly nobody higher to give an explanation for that than Kevin Tracey. A neurosurgeon on the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in New York, he has been at…