{"id":243410,"date":"2026-08-31T01:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/vagus-nerve-stimulation-may-enhance-long-term-motor-learning"},"modified":"2026-08-31T01:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:15:35","slug":"vagus-nerve-stimulation-may-enhance-long-term-motor-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/vagus-nerve-stimulation-may-enhance-long-term-motor-learning","title":{"rendered":"Vagus nerve stimulation may enhance long-term motor learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vagus-nerve-stimulation-may-enhance-long-term-motor-learning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever feel like sometimes you can master a new dance step almost immediately, while other times you struggle to nail it despite repeated practice? This might be due to skill or effort, but also to something less obvious: whether the brain is in a state that allows learning to take hold.<\/p>\n<p>The brain does not learn in isolation from the rest of the body. Signals from internal organs continuously reach the brain through a key part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/health\/What-is-the-Nervous-System.aspx\">nervous system<\/a> called the vagus nerve. Researchers at Tohoku University specializing in super-network brain physiology have now demonstrated in mice that stimulating this nerve after training can promote lasting motor learning. This study reveals a previously underappreciated way in which body-to-brain signaling may support long-term learning.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published in <em>iScience <\/em>on August 25, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like sometimes you can master a new dance step almost immediately, while other times you struggle to nail it despite repeated practice? This might be due to skill or effort, but also to something less obvious: whether the brain is in a state that allows learning to take hold. The brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243410","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}