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The human brain is designed to live inside an innervated body.

It's branches innervate the muscles of facial expression.

And occasionally these apps out innervate their western counterparts.

From [1], "The vagus nerve directly innervates the sinoatrial node; when activated, it serves to lower the heart rate".

I think you're wrong to link the implant to the lung infection on the basis that the vagus nerve "innervates the lungs" - which is a best an oversimplification.

You could dell when it was firing if the person was talking - every few minutes, their voice would go funny for a couple of seconds as the vocal chords are innervated by the vagus.

Okay, that's actually a trick question because the vocal cords are innervated via cranial nerves emanating from the medulla [3], rather than via spinal cord.

The vascular system innervates throughout the brain like a secondary connectome, and is implicated in information processing as well.

"The vagus nerve also innervates the lungs, and performing a surgery to stimulate it could impact the lungs or immune system in general... so there is definitely reason to suspect a link.

There are many effects, but the primary symptoms WRT motor control are caused by death of dopaminergic neurons whose cell bodies reside in the substantia nigra but innervate and regulate firing of corticostriatal pre-motor pathways.

[1] At this point in time, since we've yet to find extraterrestrial life, caveat emptor, etc etc etc[2] Points-of-entry for googling and wiki'ing: "neural plasticity" and "sensory substitution"[3] Terms to search for: "innervated prosthetics" and "targeted reinnervation"