Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) for migraine: an fMRI study
Zhang Y, Huang Y, Li H, Yan Z, Zhang Y, Liu X, Hou X, Chen W, Tu Y, Hodges S, et al.
Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine · 2021
Key finding
Of the 59 patients that finished the study, those in the taVNS group had significantly reduced number of migraine days, pain intensity and migraine attack times after 4 weeks of treatment compared with the sham taVNS.
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- Condition
- Migraine
- Stimulation
- taVNS
- Evidence tier
- Randomised Controlled Trial
- Participants
- 59
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Zhang, Y., Huang, Y., Li, H., Yan, Z., Zhang, Y., Liu, X., Hou, X., Chen, W., Tu, Y., Hodges, S., Chen, H., Liu, B., & Kong, J. (2021). Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) for migraine: an fMRI study. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, 46(2), 145-150. https://doi.org/10.1136/rapm-2020-102088
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