Researcher · Evidence Profile
Peter J. Goadsby
Peter J. Goadsby appears on 7 studies of vagus nerve stimulation catalogued in our evidence database, with a focus on Cluster Headache, Migraine.
7
Studies
2
Conditions
5
RCT / SR-MA
3
Stim. types
Conditions researched
Evidence-tier mix
Systematic review / meta-analysis2
Randomised controlled trial3
Cohort / observational1
Case series / report1
The studies
7 studies · strongest evidence firstEuropean Academy of Neurology guidelines on the treatment of cluster headache
May et al. · European journal of neurology · 2023
systematic reviewsCluster HeadacheiVNSDifferential efficacy of non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for the acute treatment of episodic and chronic cluster headache: A meta-analysis
de Coo et al. · Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache · 2019 · n = 225
systematic reviewsCluster HeadacheiVNSNon-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) for the preventive treatment of episodic migraine: The multicentre, double-blind, randomised, sham-controlled PREMIUM trial
Diener et al. · Cephalalgia · 2019 · n = 477
RCTsMigrainetcVNSNon-invasive vagus nerve stimulation for the acute treatment of episodic and chronic cluster headache: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled ACT2 study
Goadsby et al. · Cephalalgia · 2018 · n = 92
RCTsCluster HeadachetcVNSChronic migraine headache prevention with noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation: The EVENT study
Silberstein et al. · Neurology · 2016 · n = 59
RCTsMigrainetcVNSInitial use of a novel noninvasive vagus nerve stimulator for cluster headache treatment
Nesbitt et al. · Neurology · 2015
observational studiesCluster HeadachetaVNSNon-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Cluster Headache: A Clinical Practice Guideline
Goadsby et al. · Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2025
narrative reviewsCluster HeadacheiVNS