Noninvasive Cervical Vagal Nerve Stimulation Alters Brain Activity During Traumatic Stress in Individuals With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Wittbrodt M, Gurel N, Nye J, Shandhi M, Gazi A, Shah A, Pearce B, Murrah N, Ko Y, Shallenberger L, et al.
Psychosomatic Medicine · 2021
Key finding
In an RCT, tcVNS altered brain activity during traumatic-memory scripts — increasing frontal, temporal, hippocampal and cingulate activation — versus sham in trauma-exposed individuals.
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- Condition
- PTSD
- Stimulation
- tcVNS
- Evidence tier
- Randomised Controlled Trial
- Participants
- 22
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Wittbrodt, M., Gurel, N., Nye, J., Shandhi, M., Gazi, A., Shah, A., Pearce, B., Murrah, N., Ko, Y., Shallenberger, L., Vaccarino, V., Inan, O., & Bremner, J. (2021). Noninvasive Cervical Vagal Nerve Stimulation Alters Brain Activity During Traumatic Stress in Individuals With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Psychosomatic Medicine.
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