ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) Enhances Response Selection During Sequential Action.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05343039 (Leveraging Biomarkers and New Technologies to Reduce Self-Injury and Substance Abuse Risk Among Highly Vulnerable Adolescents), which is not on this map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Leveraging Biomarkers and New Technologies to Reduce Self-Injury and Substance Abuse Risk Among Highly Vulnerable Adolescents
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 100 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sorting the mind: cognitive enhancement through transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Reduces Postoperative Delirium After Major Non-Cardiac Surgery in Elderly Patients.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Trial
- Effects of taVNS on physiological responses and cognitive performance during a mental stressor.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Trial
- Auricular vagus nerve stimulation for mitigation of inflammation and vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage: a single-institution randomized controlled trial.Journal of neurosurgery · 2025Trial
- The impact of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on anterior cingulate cortex activity in a cognitive control task.Psychophysiology · 2025Trial
- Influence of a 2-week transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on memory: findings from a randomized placebo controlled trial in non-clinical adults.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2024Trial
- Auricular Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Diminishes Alpha-Band-Related Inhibitory Gating Processes During Conflict Monitoring in Frontal Cortices.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation in epilepsy patients enhances cooperative behavior in the prisoner's dilemma task.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Exploring the Physiological Effects and Mechanisms of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid in Food Systems.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment: Current Evidence and Future Directions.NeuroSci · 2026Review
- Manual Vagal Maneuver Effects on Cardiac Coherence, HRV, and Cognitive Performance in Young Healthy Women: A Pilot Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation reduces total striatal GABA+ content, increases DLPFC Glu content, and facilitates early-phase motor learning.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Differential Impacts of Fronto-Cerebellar tACS and tVNS on Motor Learning: Evidence for Sex-Related Neural Modulation.Neural plasticity · 2026Article
- No effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on response inhibition.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Restores Cognitive Impairment in Morphine-Withdrawn Rats: Role of BDNF and Glial Cells in the Hippocampus.Addiction biology · 2025Article
- Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Enhances Probabilistic Learning.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- The Vagus Nerve as a Gateway to Body Ownership: taVNS Reduces Susceptibility to a Virtual Version of the Cardiac and Tactile Rubber Hand Illusion.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Macrophages as central mediators of sympathetic neuro-immune interplay in autoimmunity.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in healthy individuals, stroke, and Parkinson's disease: a narrative review of safety, parameters, and efficacy.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Review
- The vagus nerve: a cornerstone for mental health and performance optimization in recreation and elite sports.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) is a non-invasive and safe technique that transiently enhances brain GABA and noradrenaline levels. Although tVNS has been used mainly to treat clinical disorders such as epilepsy, recent studies indicate it is also an effective tool to investigate and potentially enhance the neuromodulation of action control. Given the key roles of GABA and noradrenaline in neural plasticity and cortical excitability, we investigated whether tVNS, through a presumed increase in level of these neurotransmitters, modulates sequential behavior in terms of response selection and sequence learning components. To this end we assessed the effect of single-session tVNS in healthy young adults (
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