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Dr. Kevin Tracey

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Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

In the procedure, and so there's a select group of neurosurgeons who are doing this at select sites.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

But eventually, again, it's possible.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

I don't know this.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

I'm not an insider in Setpoint Medical, the company.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

But eventually, I would imagine a time when the implants are brought into other specialties once the expertise has been gained.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

So the device has a rechargeable battery.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

To start, because the FDA has a purpose for rheumatoid arthritis, the rheumatologist will program the device to turn itself on for one minute a day.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

Nothing for the patient to do.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

When the current is flowing, I've met many patients.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

They don't feel anything when it's stimulated.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

Some patients feel a little tingling for one minute in their neck.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

Some patients feel nothing.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

I've met people who sleep through the therapy once a day and I've met other people.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

I met a school teacher and she was written about in the New York Times.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

dawn and she told me that it wakes her up in the morning and i said oh that's too bad 4 30 waking you up at 4 30. she goes no i get up early anyways i don't mind it and for years my alarm would come a teacher and my alarm would go off at 4 30 and i would feel the pain in my hands and wrists and i'd start to cry and now this thing wakes me up with a little tingling and i wake up and i have no pain in my hands and i get a big smile on my face to start the day so she doesn't mind the tingling

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

That's right.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

That's exactly right.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

And as you know, the data are all in the Nature Medicine paper that John Tesser is the first author.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

And that was an important factor in the sham controls.

Ground Truths
Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System

How many people in the sham group think they have the active group, think that they're feeling it come on for a minute a day?