Vagus nerve stimulation: Invasive or noninvasive?

Vagus nerve stimulation: Invasive or noninvasive?

Noninvasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Migraine

“We assessed whether longer treatment duration was associated with clinically meaningful results, as previously reported in a study of neuromodulation in chronic migraine,” wrote researcher Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, of Jefferson Headache Center, Philadelphia, and colleagues in Neurology. “Participants originally randomized to nVNS and who continued open-label treatment for 6 months had a sign...

Chronic migraine headache prevention with noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the feasibility, safety, and tolerability of noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) for the prevention of chronic migraine (CM) attacks. METHODS In this first prospective, multicenter, double-blind, sham-controlled pilot study of nVNS in CM prophylaxis, adults with CM (≥15 headache d/mo) entered the baseline phase (1 month) and were subsequently randomized to nVNS or...

Vagus nerve stimulation therapy

Over the past 5 years, and especially within the last year, there has been a rapid expansion of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)-related preclinical research, as well as clinical studies in indications other than epilepsy. The research advances in understanding VNS are occurring in the midst of a blossoming of other forms of therapeutic brain stimulation, such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), t...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation

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