Tag: vagal stimulation

Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Neurotrophins: a biological psychiatric perspective

Ok. A whole new area of brain chemistry I wasn’t aware of. I’m not even sure where Neurotrophins are found. Will report once I know. I’m tempted to buy this article, but don’t want to get carried away. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149763419310516 Review article Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Neurotrophins: a biological psychiatric perspective Author links open overlay panelPamelaRossoa1AngelaIannitellib1FrancescaPacittibcAdeleQuartinibElenaFicoaMarcoFioreaAntonioGrecodMassimoRallidPaolaTirassaa…

Enterochromaffin Cells Are Gut Chemosensors that Couple to Sensory Neural Pathways.

Cell. 2017 Jun 29;170(1):185-198.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.034. Epub 2017 Jun 22. full article here Enterochromaffin Cells Are Gut Chemosensors that Couple to Sensory Neural Pathways. Bellono NW1, Bayrer JR2, Leitch DB1, Castro J3, Zhang C1, O’Donnell TA3, Brierley SM3, Ingraham HA4, Julius D5. Author information 1 Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco,…

Using HRV to Predict Success with Implanted Vagal Nerve Stimulators for Drug Resistent Epilepsy

This article achieves something that has always been on the back burner of my HRV project. That is, can we tell something about people’s likelihood to respond to treatment before we treat them, by analyzing their HRV? In my earliest research, I saw a correlation with patients’ stress response (LF/HF) on the treatment table with…

Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Pediatric Epilepsy Patients

This is a very interesting article in that, intermittent vagus nerve stimulation lead to decreased parasympathetic tone. Apparently children with epilepsy can have too much vagal tone and if you decrease it, it leads to better adaptability. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2011 Dec;53(12):1143-9. Autonomic effects of refractory epilepsy on heart rate variability in children: influence…

Pstim device for pain

This is an older article about the Pstim device. It is super pricey so there’s no way I will ever be able to use it. But I’m interested in the vagal stim piece. I met Bonakdar at a conference one and he seemed like a knowledgeable and agreeable guy fwiw.