Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2025, 11:00-12:00 ET
Interrogating the physiology of the human vagus nerve via intraneural microelectrodes
Presenter: Vaughan Macefield, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University
About the Seminar, a note from Vaughan
In my seminar, I'll be talking about the vagus nerve and what we can learn by recording from it in humans. While we know a great deal about this nerve’s function in experimental animals, it’s only recently that we've been able to explore its physiology in humans using microelectrodes inserted directly into the nerve in the neck. I’ll discuss the general methodology and how it can be applied to better understand both normal and disturbed physiology.
This video is available on the SPARC YouTube Channel.
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REVEAL - Research Evaluating Vagal Excitation and Anatomical Links [Project Link] |
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Microelectrode recordings from the human cervical... [Read the Paper] |
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Firing properties of single axons... [Read the Paper] |
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Risk of bradycardia and asystole... [Read the Paper] |
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First-in-human microelectrode recordings... [Read the Paper] |
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Quantification of cardiac and respiratory modulation... [Read the Paper] |
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In vivo recordings from the human vagus nerve... [Read the Paper] |
