ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2022
Rapid Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Sensory Processing Through Activation of Neuromodulatory Systems.
Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06294509 (Feasibility and Effects of Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Timings in a Sensorimotor Task), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.
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Feasibility and Effects of Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Timings in a Sensorimotor Task
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation during short-term motor practice drives cortical plasticity without behavioural improvement.The Journal of physiology · 2026Trial
- Transcutaneous Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Speech Comprehension in Noise: A Crossover, Placebo-Controlled Study.Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society · 2025Trial
- Transcutaneous cervical vagus nerve stimulation improves sensory performance in humans: a randomized controlled crossover pilot study.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation at Olfactory Bulb-Relevant Frequencies Modulates Human Olfactory Function.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation and emotional responding in borderline personality disorder: a randomized single-blind, sham-controlled study.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Autonomic and neural responses to varying transcutaneous cervical electrical stimulation parameters.Bioelectronic medicine · 2026Article
- The Contribution of the Locus Ceruleus-Norepinephrine System to the Coupling between Pupil-Linked Arousal and Cortical State.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Enhanced neural plasticity of the primary visual cortex in visual snow syndrome: evidence from magnetoencephalographic gamma oscillations.Brain communications · 2026Article
- The interaction between neurotransmitter receptor activity and amyloid-β pathology in Alzheimer's disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Review
- Transcutaneous cervical vagus nerve stimulation improves speech comprehension in noise: A crossover, placebo-controlled study.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- Bidirectional modulation of somatostatin-expressing interneurons in the basolateral amygdala reduces neuropathic pain perception in mice.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Optimization of Temporal Coding of Tactile Information in Rat Thalamus by Locus Coeruleus Activation.Biology · 2024Article
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Ischemic Stroke.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2023Review
- Adaptive decision-making depends on pupil-linked arousal in rats performing tactile discrimination tasks.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
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- Breast Cancer: How Hippotherapy Bridges the Gap between Healing and Recovery-A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.Cancers · 2023Article
- Precise sound characteristics drive plasticity in the primary auditory cortex with VNS-sound pairing.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Immediate effects and duration of a short and single application of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on P300 event related potential.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
After sensory information is encoded into neural signals at the periphery, it is processed through multiple brain regions before perception occurs (i.e., sensory processing). Recent work has begun to tease apart how neuromodulatory systems influence sensory processing. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is well-known as an effective and safe method of activating neuromodulatory systems. There is a growing body of studies confirming VNS has immediate effects on sensory processing across multiple sensory modalities. These immediate effects of VNS on sensory processing are distinct from the more well-documented method of inducing lasting neuroplastic changes to the sensory pathways through repeatedly delivering a brief VNS burst paired with a sensory stimulus. Immediate effects occur upon VNS onset, often disappear upon VNS offset, and the modulation is present for all sensory stimuli. Conversely, the neuroplastic effect of pairing sub-second bursts of VNS with a sensory stimulus alters sensory processing only after multiple pairing sessions, this alteration remains after cessation of pairing sessions, and the alteration selectively affects the response properties of neurons encoding the specific paired sensory stimulus. Here, we call attention to the immediate effects VNS has on sensory processing. This review discusses existing studies on this topic, provides an overview of the underlying neuromodulatory systems that likely play a role, and briefly explores the potential translational applications of using VNS to rapidly regulate sensory processing.
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