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Transcutaneous nerve stimulation via the tragus: are we really stimulating the vagus nerve?
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Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation for Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Non-invasive Autonomic Neuromodulation Is Opening New Landscapes for Cardiovascular Diseases.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Pooled it
- Vagus nerve stimulation paired with rehabilitation for upper limb motor function after ischaemic stroke (VNS-REHAB): a randomised, blinded, pivotal, device trial.Lancet (London, England) · 2021Trial
- No modulation of pupil size and event-related pupil response by transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS).Scientific reports · 2019Trial
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- Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Neuromodulation: Evolution from Bench to Bedside.Neurology international · 2026Article
- Pulsed taVNS-Elicited Pupil Dilation: Effects of Intermixed Stimulation, Sham Location, and Respiratory Phase.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Enhances Probabilistic Learning.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Effects on Flavor-Evoked Electroencephalogram and Eye-Blink Rate.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Three Hundred Hertz Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS) Impacts Pupil Size Non-Linearly as a Function of Intensity.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Vagus nerve stimulation for stroke rehabilitation: Neural substrates, neuromodulatory effects and therapeutic implications.The Journal of physiology · 2025Review
- Networks of Nerve Fibers, and Blood and Lymphatic Vessels in the Mouse Auricle: The Structural Basis of Ear Acupuncture.Medical acupuncture · 2024Article
- Advances in VNS efficiency and mechanisms of action on cognitive functions.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Review
- Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease and Vagus Nerve Stimulation.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Non-invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Cerebral Stroke: Current Status and Future Perspectives.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Therapeutic applications of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation with potential for application in neurodevelopmental or other pediatric disorders.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
- Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: The importance of the vagus nerve for biopsychosocial resilience.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Transcutaneous auricular VNS applied to experimental pain: A paired behavioral and EEG study using thermonociceptive CO2 laser.PloS one · 2021Article
- Neurosensory Prosthetics: An Integral Neuromodulation Part of Bioelectronic Device.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Brain-Heart Interaction During Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
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