Head Hurts? Zap The Wonder Nerve in Your Neck, electroCore Reveals

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“IT WAS like red-hot pokers needling one side of my face,” says Catherine, recalling the cluster headaches she experienced for six years. “I just wanted it to stop.” But it wouldn’t – none of the drugs she tried had any effect. Thinking she had nothing to lose, last year she enrolled in a pilot study to test a handheld device that applies a bolt of electricity to the neck, stimulating the vagus nerve – the superhighway that connects the brain to many of the body’s organs, including the heart.

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