{"id":225075,"date":"2025-11-14T01:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/vagus-nerves-right-branch-plays-a-key-role-in-digestive-signaling"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:19:33","slug":"vagus-nerves-right-branch-plays-a-key-role-in-digestive-signaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/vagus-nerves-right-branch-plays-a-key-role-in-digestive-signaling","title":{"rendered":"Vagus nerve\u2019s right branch plays a key role in digestive signaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vagus-nerves-right-branch-plays-a-key-role-in-digestive-signaling2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is\u2014for the first time\u2014the lead author of a study published in an academic journal, a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2211124725012781\" target=\"_blank\">appearing<\/a> in <i>Cell Reports<\/i>, which examined the role of the vagus nerve\u2019s branches in digestive signaling.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of Welch\u2019s research is to learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/vagus+nerve\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vagus nerve<\/a>\u2019s role in the forming of dietary habits. The vagus nerve includes left and right branches. Earlier research in the Motor and Habit Learning Lab of Dr. Catherine Thorn, associate professor of neuroscience in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and the corresponding author of the <i>Cell Reports<\/i> study, indicates that those two sides have different functions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that the vagus nerve transmits information about the nutritional and reward aspects of food from the gut to the brain,\u201d Welch said. \u201cWhat we are discovering is that such reward signaling is lateralized\u2014mainly right-sided.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is\u2014for the first time\u2014the lead author of a study published in an academic journal, a paper appearing in Cell Reports, which examined the role of the vagus nerve\u2019s branches in digestive signaling. The goal of Welch\u2019s research is to learn more about the vagus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}