Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation improves anxiety symptoms and cortical activity during verbal fluency task in Parkinson's disease with anxiety
Zhang H, Shan AD, Wan CH, Cao XY, Yuan YS, Ye SY, Gao MX, Gao LZ, Tong Q, Gan CT, et al.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2024
Key finding
PD-A patients showed significantly decreased oxyhemoglobin in the left triangle part of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) during VFT, which was negatively related to the severity of anxiety symptoms.
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- Anxiety
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- taVNS
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- Randomised Controlled Trial
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Zhang, H., Shan, A. D., Wan, C. H., Cao, X. Y., Yuan, Y. S., Ye, S. Y., Gao, M. X., Gao, L. Z., Tong, Q., Gan, C. T., Sun, H. M., & Zhang, K. Z. (2024). Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation improves anxiety symptoms and cortical activity during verbal fluency task in Parkinson's disease with anxiety. Journal of Affective Disorders, 361, 556-563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.06.083
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