ArticleTranslational psychiatry2025
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation alleviates anxiety-like behaviors in mice with post-traumatic stress disorder by regulating glutamatergic neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex.
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- Effects of Transcutaneous Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in World Trade Center Responders: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Trial
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- Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation: mechanisms, applications, and research progress.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Biomarkers for complex post-traumatic stress disorder: translational and evolutionary perspectives.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Noninvasive Terahertz Wave Binocular Stimulation Improves Cognition in Amyloid-β-Related Dementia.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Impact of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Duration on Volumetric and Microstructural Parameters of the Hippo-Campus, Amygdala, and Prefrontal Cortex: A Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study with Correlation Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Vagus nerve stimulation has been certified to be an effective therapeutic modality for emotional disorders, especially anxiety triggered by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nevertheless, the neural mechanisms underlying the efficacy of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) remain poorly understood. In this study, we aimed to elucidate whether and how taVNS influences anxiety-like behaviors elicited by PTSD, focusing on synaptic plasticity in taVNS-activated neurons (TANs) of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Our findings substantiate that taVNS significantly mitigates anxiety-like behaviors in PTSD-like male mice via activating specific glutamatergic neurons in the ACC. Notably, these glutamatergic TANs
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