Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on upper limb motor function with stroke: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy pilot study
Wang L, Gao F, Dai Y, Wang Z, Liang F, Wu J, Wang M, Wang L
Frontiers in Neuroscience · 2023
Key finding
In patients exhibiting left-side hemiplegia, there was a notable increase in activation within the pre-motor and supplementary motor cortex (PMC-SMC) of the unaffected hemisphere as well as in the left Broca area.
- Condition
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Stimulation
- taVNS
- Evidence tier
- Controlled Clinical Trial
- Participants
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Cite this study
Wang, L., Gao, F., Dai, Y., Wang, Z., Liang, F., Wu, J., Wang, M., & Wang, L. (2023). Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on upper limb motor function with stroke: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy pilot study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1297887
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