Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation to treat narcolepsy type 1 (TARGET-NT1): A two-arm, randomised, sham-controlled trial
Pan Y, Zhang Y, Xu Z, Wei Z, Pan R, Hu G, Wang X, Yang L, Wu D, Zhang X, et al.
Neurotherapeutics · 2025
Key finding
Significant improvements in NSS-EDS (-2.61 [95%CI, -4.07, -1.15; P = 0.0006]), NSS-SP (-1.11 [95%CI, -1.83, -0.38; P = 0.0030]), NSS-HH (-2.71 [95%CI, -3.36, -2.05; P < 0.0001]), NSS- DNS (-0.52 [95%CI, -0.87, -0.17; P = 0.0036]), ESS (-3.03 [95%CI, -4.30, -1.75; P < 0.0001]) and HAMD-1...
- Condition
- Anxiety
- Stimulation
- taVNS
- Evidence tier
- Randomised Controlled Trial
- Participants
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Cite this study
Pan, Y., Zhang, Y., Xu, Z., Wei, Z., Pan, R., Hu, G., Wang, X., Yang, L., Wu, D., Zhang, X., Wen, X., Qu, S., Li, C., Zhu, Z., Gao, Y., Shi, X., Zhu, Y., Wu, K., Wang, D., & Liu, Y. (2025). Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation to treat narcolepsy type 1 (TARGET-NT1): A two-arm, randomised, sham-controlled trial. Neurotherapeutics, 22(4), e00604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurot.2025.e00604
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