Quantifying acute physiological biomarkers of transcutaneous cervical vagal nerve stimulation in the context of psychological stress
Gurel NZ, Huang M, Wittbrodt MT, Jung H, Ladd SL, Shandhi MMH, Ko YA, Shallenberger L, Nye JA, Pearce B, et al.
Brain Stimulation · 2019
Key finding
When applied after acute psychological stressors, tcVNS reduced sympathetic activation, increasing cardiac pre-ejection period and peripheral vasodilation relative to sham.
- Condition
- Stress & Performance
- Stimulation
- tcVNS
- Evidence tier
- Controlled Clinical Trial
- Participants
- 24
Cite this study
Gurel, N. Z., Huang, M., Wittbrodt, M. T., Jung, H., Ladd, S. L., Shandhi, M. M. H., Ko, Y. A., Shallenberger, L., Nye, J. A., Pearce, B., Vaccarino, V., Shah, A. J., Bremner, J. D., & Inan, O. T. (2019). Quantifying acute physiological biomarkers of transcutaneous cervical vagal nerve stimulation in the context of psychological stress. Brain Stimulation, 13(1), 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.08.002
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