it also turns off chronic inflammation, a newly discovered effect of electricity on the brain. Scientists have discovered a neuroinflammatory reflex that is housed in the vagus nerve (which the PoNS stimulates directly) and have recently used electrical stimulation of the vagus to cure rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune illness like MS, in a man for whom all medications had failed. The details of the neuroinflammatory reflex, and how it works to turn off an overactive immune system almost immediately, are discussed in detail in the endnotes.
