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Perceived injustice in cancer survivors: an exploration and a population-specific cut-off score KU Leuven Hasselt University
Neuromodulation Applied to Diseases: The Case of HRV Biofeedback KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The vagus or "wandering" nerve is the main branch of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), innervating most internal organs crucial for health. Activity of the vagus nerve can be non-invasively indexed by heart-rate variability parameters (HRV). Specific HRV parameters predict less all-cause mortality, lower risk of and better prognosis after myocardial infarctions, and better survival in cancer. A non-invasive manner for self-activating the ...
Pain and Opioid Use in Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Account for Perceived Injustice KU Leuven
HRM in Essentie KU Leuven
Stronger Correlations between Neurophysiological and Peripheral Disease Biomarkers Predict Better Prognosis in Two Severe Diseases KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
: 'Mind-body' debates assume that better brain-body associations are healthy. This study examined whether degree of associations between a neurophysiological vagal nerve index and peripheral disease biomarkers predict prognosis in pancreatic cancer (PC) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Sample 1 included 272 patients with advanced PC. Sample 2 included 118 patients with MS. We measured the vagal nerve index heart rate variability (HRV) derived from ...
The Vagus Nerve Can Predict and Possibly Modulate Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing a Neuroimmunological Paradigm to Public Health KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Global burden of diseases (GBD) includes non-communicable conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These share important behavioral risk factors (e.g., smoking, diet) and pathophysiological contributing factors (oxidative stress, inflammation and excessive sympathetic activity). This article wishes to introduce to medicine and public health a new paradigm to predict, understand, prevent and ...
Why Are Employers Put Off by Long Spells of Unemployment? KU Leuven University of Antwerp Ghent University
Why we Should Stimulate the Vagus Nerve in Cancer KU Leuven
Cancer-related fatigue, pain, anxiety, depression, insomnia and cognitive impairment often cooccur in metastatic cancer. Their co-occurrence can be explained by a commonetio logical factor, namely excessive inflammation, which also contributes totumorigenesis. Recent research shows that the vagus nerve has an anti-inflammatory role and has protective effects against these symptoms and prognosis in various cancers. Initially high vagus nerve ...