ArticleScientific reports2018
Cervical vagus nerve morphometry and vascularity in the context of nerve stimulation - A cadaveric study.
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- Two paths to the body's superhighway-the auricular branch (taVNS) and the cervical bundle (tcVNS): a narrative review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Human vagus nerve fascicular anatomy and its implications for targeted cardiac stimulation: a microCT segmentation and histological pilot anatomical study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Anatomical variations of the cervical vagus nerve on ultrasonography: a cross-sectional study.Journal of ultrasonography · 2025Article
- Gut-brain communication: Functional anatomy of vagal afferents.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2025Review
- Scaling of vagus nerve stimulation parameters does not achieve equivalent nerve responses across species.Bioelectronic medicine · 2025Article
- The physiology, anatomy and stimulation of the vagus nerve in epilepsy.The Journal of physiology · 2025Review
- Vagus nerve stimulation for stroke rehabilitation: Neural substrates, neuromodulatory effects and therapeutic implications.The Journal of physiology · 2025Review
- Laterality, sexual dimorphism, and human vagal projectome heterogeneity shape neuromodulation to vagus nerve stimulation.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Signal processing in the vagus nerve: Hypotheses based on new genetic and anatomical evidence.Biological psychology · 2023Review
- Spatially selective stimulation of the pig vagus nerve to modulate target effect versus side effect.Journal of neural engineering · 2023Article
- Comparing the accuracy of ultrasound-based measurements of the cervical vagus nerve.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Impact of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on healthy cognitive and brain aging.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Organotopic organization of the porcine mid-cervical vagus nerve.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Vagus nerve stimulation: mechanisms and factors involved in memory enhancement.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- Sympathetic components in left and right human cervical vagus nerve: implications for vagus nerve stimulation.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2023Article
- Noninvasive Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Opioid Use Disorder.Annals of depression and anxiety · 2023Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has become a well-established therapy for epilepsy and depression, and is emerging to treat inflammatory disease, with the cervical vagus nerve (CVN) as major stimulation site. CVN morphometries are missing for VNS, considering its variability. Morphometric data were obtained from CVNs in 27 cadavers, including branching patterns and histology. Cross-sectional area, greater and lesser diameters averaged 7.2 ± 3.1 mm
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