How to Use vagal in a Sentence

vagal

adjective

• The team tested their subjects’ vagal tone, or strength, before and after the study.
  — Jeffrey Rediger, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• And as the number of social interactions went up, so did vagal tone.
  — Jeffrey Rediger, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2020
• Other studies have found that laughter helps restore a healthy vagal tone by contracting the diaphragm and pushing air out of the lungs.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• This leads to an increase in vagal activity, which relates to a decrease in heart rate, blood pressure, and the stress hormone cortisol, per Field.
  — Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
• In extreme cases, vagal tampering can lead to sudden death.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 28 Dec. 2023
• The vagal response is an automatic response that occurs when the vagus nerve is stimulated by triggers like stress, fear and pain.
  — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2020
• Except the dorsal vagal complex hasn’t actually been proved to exist in humans.
  — Kristen Martin, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
• This would mean that the vagal nerves’ calming action is getting delayed—so the panic, heart palpitations and constant anxiety many people have described to me make sense.
  — Emily Mendenhall, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Most recently, Liberles’s team discovered cells in the brainstem, connected to vagal neurons, that trigger nausea.
  — Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 10 June 2021
• The researchers are also using their approach to examine metabolic changes, injecting mice with insulin or glucose and looking for vagal responses.
  — Tim Hornyak, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
• Most vagal nerve stimulators, including SetPoint’s devices and those already in use for treating epilepsy and depression, are implants.
  — Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2018
• Based on human experiments, Holst hypothesized that GLP-1 caused slower emptying of the stomach, which sent a signal through the vagal nerve signifying fullness.
  — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
• In 2018, neuroscientist Diego Bohórquez at Duke University discovered a direct vagal connection between nutrient-sensing cells in the mouse gut called neuropods and the brain.
  — Emily Underwood, Science | AAAS, 10 June 2021
• Instances of ‘low vagal tone’ (a condition when the vagus nerve is not firing well) are associated with slower physical and emotional recovery after periods of prolonged stress.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• According to a study, Loving-Kindness-Meditation created a healthy vagal tone in participants.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024