ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2020
Reduced Frontal Nogo-N2 With Uncompromised Response Inhibition During Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation-More Efficient Cognitive Control?
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- Sorting the mind: cognitive enhancement through transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation may improve cognitive deficits in neuropsychiatric diseases-a systematic review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
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- The impact of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on anterior cingulate cortex activity in a cognitive control task.Psychophysiology · 2025Trial
- The selective dynamics of proactive and reactive control in GAD: A taVNS study using hierarchical drift diffusion modeling.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- No effect of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on response inhibition.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treating Emotional Dysregulation and Inflammation in Common Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Exploring the impact of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation in subjects with and without burnout: Potential benefits for executive function and neural processing.Neuroimage. Reports · 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
- Impact of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on cognitive flexibility as a function of task complexity.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neurotechnology for enhancing human operation of robotic and semi-autonomous systems.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 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
- Impact of Stimulation Duration in taVNS-Exploring Multiple Physiological and Cognitive Outcomes.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Investigating neuromodulatory effect of transauricular vagus nerve stimulation on resting-state electroencephalography.Biomedical engineering letters · 2024Article
- Video game addiction is associated with early stage of inhibitory control problems: An event-related potential study using cued Go/NoGo task.Addiction biology · 2024Article
- Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation: a new strategy for Alzheimer's disease intervention through the brain-gut-microbiota axis?Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Review
- Neurobiological effects of exercise intervention for premenstrual syndrome.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2023Article
- Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) applications in cognitive aging: a review and commentary.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
- Synergistic effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation and inhibitory control training on electrophysiological performance in healthy adults.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
We have previously shown invasive vagus nerve stimulation to improve attention and working memory and alter emotion-attention interaction in patients with refractory epilepsy, suggesting that VNS might be useful in the treatment of cognitive impairment. The current research focuses on whether non-invasive, transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) has similar effects to VNS. Furthermore, we aimed to assess whether tVNS has an impact on cognitive control in general or on underlying brain physiology in a task that mimics everyday life demands where multiple executive functions are engaged while encountering intervening emotional stimuli. Event-related potentials (ERP) evoked in such a task, specifically centro-parietal P3 and frontal N2 were used as biomarkers for attention allocation and cognitive control required to carry out the task. A single-blinded, sham-controlled, within-subject study on healthy subjects (
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