Cornell's AppetiteCheck wearable curbs appetite via vagus nerve stimulation, beats sham
plopesresearch · x · 2026-10-14
A new paper by Cornell's tangemicioglu et al. at Ubicomp/IMWUT 2026 presents AppetiteCheck, a wearable that electrically stimulates the vagus nerve — the brain-gut signaling highway — while the user is eating, amplifying the body's rest-and-digest response to control appetite. The study reports it worked well against placebo/sham controls. plopesresearch is among the collaborators.
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