# Your Brain Could Be Controlling How Sick You Get—And How You Recover

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/your-brain-could-be-controlling-how-sick-you-get-and-how-you-recover/
- Published: 2023-03-02T10:00:29-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Image caption: Brain and the vagus nerve. Image credit: Axel Kock / Alamy Stock Photo. Article by Diana Kwon. Scientific American – February 27, 2023. Original article published in Nature magazine. Hundreds of scientists around the world are looking for ways to treat heart attacks. But few started where Hedva Haykin has: in the brain. Haykin, a doctoral student at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, wants […] Click here to view original web page at www.scientificamerican.com