Publications of Note

Emma Paulon,1 Despoina Nastou,1 Francesca Jaboli,1 Juana Marin,2 Eric Liebler,3 Owen Epstein1 1Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 2NIHR-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK 3electroCore, LLC, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, USA ABSTRACT Background Gastric electric stimulation (GES) is a treatment approach to refractory gastroparesis, possibly acting centrally via afferent vagus nerve stimulation (VNS). Non-invasive VNS (nVNS) […]

Claire-Marie Rangon and Adam Niezgoda Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic seems endless with the regular emergence of new variants. Is the SARS-CoV-2 virus particularly evasive to the immune system, or is it merely disrupting communication between the body and the brain, thus pre-empting homeostasis? Retrospective analysis of the COVID-19 and AIDS pandemics, as well as prion disease,