An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out
b'Fifteen years ago, Kevin Tracey sat in a Washington DC conference room surrounded by officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They\\u2019d been paying the neurosurgeon to study how doctors could stimulate the vagus nerve\\u2014a long nerve that controls everything from blood pressure to sexual arousal\\u2014to treat inflammation associated with PTSD. Now they wanted to know: Could he stimulate anything else into submission? He searched his brain.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'