Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Headache
Yuan H, Silberstein SD
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain · 2017
Key finding
Early case series from epilepsy and depression cohorts using invasive VNS showed a serendipitous reduction in headache frequency and/or severity.
- Condition
- Cluster Headache
- Stimulation
- tcVNS
- Evidence tier
- Case Report / Series
- Participants
- —
Cite this study
Yuan, H., & Silberstein, S. D. (2017). Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Headache. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 57(S1), 29-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/head.12721
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