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Re:The Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hacking by brandonb on Thursday June 11, 2015 @06:10PM (#9702779)
You don't necessarily need a fancy device to stimulate the vagus nerve. Patients with supraventricular tachycardias are taught to do vagal maneuvers, the simplest of which is gagging: http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/tc/va...

In general, imbalance within the autonomic nervous system (of which the vagus nerve controls half—the parasympathetic portion) has been shown to be related to everything from heart disease to irritable bowel syndrome to having an irritable personality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system

Re:The Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hacking by easymovet on Saturday June 13, 2015 @01:14AM (#9709978)
I tried it out with a signal generator (wav file) and an audio amplifier cranked way up, it felt like AC and made some muscles twitch but nothing compared to mechanical vagal maneuvers.