ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2014
Vagus somatosensory evoked potentials are delayed in Alzheimer's disease, but not in major depression.
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- Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Current Evidence and Future Directions.NeuroSci · 2026Review
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy and vagus somatosensory evoked potentials add to the power of established parameters such as poor cognitive performance, dsyosmia and APOe genotype to predict cognitive decline over 8 years in the elderly.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Observational
- Relationship between Cognitive Impairment and Depressive Symptoms with Somatosensory Functions in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Older Adults and Its Impact on Quality of Life.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Evaluation of different vagus nerve stimulation anatomical targets in the ear by vagus evoked potential responses.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- The gut microbiota to the brain axis in the metabolic control.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2019Review
- Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and vagus somatosensory evoked potentials (VSEP) in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: rationale, design, methods, and first baseline data of the Vogel study.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2017Observational
- The relation of SMI and the VSEP in a risk sample for neurodegenerative disorders.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2015Article
- PPARγ upregulation induced by vagus nerve stimulation exerts anti-inflammatory effect in cerebral ischemia/reperfusion rats.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2015Article
- Reward, memory and prediction of treatment response in affective disorders.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2014Article
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Abstract
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the degeneration of brainstem nuclei is different from major depression (MD). Thus, vagus somatosensory evoked potentials (VSEP) proposed for the functional assessment of brainstem nuclei should show prolonged latencies in AD but not in MD. In 55 AD patients, 57 MD patients and two age-matched control groups evoked potentials were recorded upon stimulation of the auricular branch of the vagus nerve. In the AD, not in the MD group, latencies were significantly longer as compared to controls. Thus, the method of VSEP could contribute to the important differential diagnosis of AD and MD in elderly patients.
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