Neural activity changes in first-episode, drug-naive patients with major depressive disorder after transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation treatment: A resting-state fMRI study
Yi S, Wang Z, Yang W, Huang C, Liu P, Chen Y, Zhang H, Zhao G, Li W, Fang J, et al.
Frontiers in Neuroscience · 2022
Key finding
In 20 first-episode, drug-naive MDD patients, 4 weeks of taVNS significantly reduced HAMD scores from 20.11 to 9.83, alongside regional homogeneity changes.
- Condition
- Depression
- Stimulation
- taVNS
- Evidence tier
- Observational / Cohort
- Participants
- 20
Cite this study
Yi, S., Wang, Z., Yang, W., Huang, C., Liu, P., Chen, Y., Zhang, H., Zhao, G., Li, W., Fang, J., & Liu, J. (2022). Neural activity changes in first-episode, drug-naive patients with major depressive disorder after transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation treatment: A resting-state fMRI study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.1018387
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