Bioelectronic Medicine, the Vagus, and the Inflammatory Reflex with Kevin Tracey
Brain Ponderings podcast with Mark Mattson
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Las Vegas Nerve Stimulation for Epilepsy
About 200,000 patients worldwide in the last 25 years have been treated with Vegas nerve stimulation for epilepsy but like biologics it only works in about half the cases. Up to 60% of people with Vegas nerve implants for epilepsy they end up getting it just turning it off because it doesn't does anything now. The good news is to the extent that we can learn from implanting Vegas nerve stimulators in humans for 25 years that it's safe, it can be safely done. It is not immunosuppressive. There's no black box warning, and it doesn't cost $100,000 every year,. Like biologics do, it costs whatever 3050. If it did
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