Vagus nerve stimulation
Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) for headache prophylaxis: initial experience
... From The European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress London, UK. 20-23 September 2012 Introduction Neurostimulation is of increasing interest in headache therapy. Invasive neurostimulation methods were ...
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Sympathetic Effect of Auricular Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Healthy Subjects: A Crossover Controlled Clinical Trial Comparing Vagally Mediated and Active Control Stimulation Using Microneurography.
... low-level vagus nerve stimulation (aLL-tVNS) appears as a promising technology to manage patients suffering from paroxysmal atrial ...sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) directly assesses the ...
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On-off closed-loop control of vagus nerve stimulation for the adaptation of heart rate
... In this paper, we describe a prototype system for real-time control of the instantaneous heart rate of a sheep with induced heart failure, through adaptive vagus nerve stimulation. The ovine animal ...
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A novel controller based on state-transition models for closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation: Application to heart rate regulation
... Abstract Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an established adjunctive therapy for pharmacologically refractory epilepsy and depression and is currently in active clinical research for other appli- ...
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Effect of pre-emptive Vagus Nerve Stimulation on cortical spreading depression in rat
... Background There is some evidence from studies in refractory migraine and collateral effects in epilepsy that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) may be beneficial for migraine. This could be due to ...
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Role of cholinergic receptors in colorectal cancer: potential therapeutic implications of vagus nerve stimulation?
... frequency stimulation (5 - 10 Hz) which is known to activate efferent fibers (for review ...Indeed, stimulation of mAChR play key role in colon cancer cell ...
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Vagus nerve stimulation: State of the art of stimulation and recording strategies to address autonomic function neuromodulation
... 4.3 VN activity monitoring The information traveling along the VN is deeply mixed as it comes from various sources. Consequently, multicontact recordings together with dedicated signal processing to extract the valuable ...
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en fr Breathing detection from tracheal sounds in both temporal and frequency domains in the context of phrenic nerve stimulation Détection respiratoire à partir de sons trachéaux dans les domaines temporel et fréquentiel dans le contexte de la stimulation du nerf phrénique
... phrenic stimulation is that it stimulates at a fixed frequency and intensity preset into the external controller ...the stimulation does not adapt to patients’ respiratory ...permanent stimulation ...
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Ultrasonography study of the suprascapular nerve
... the nerve is the most important anatomical landmark; once this land- mark is identified, the nerve is followed over its course by ultrasonography with an axial translation of the ...
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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS): towards the development of a clinic-friendly method for the evaluation of excitatory and inhibitory pain mechanisms
... Introduction Chronic pain affects approximately one-fifth of the general population, including one-third of the elderly population.1 A number of chronic pain conditions are characterized[r] ...
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Nerve impulse propagation and wavelet theory
... The nerve message contains all the major characteristics of the light ...optical nerve which transmits the nervous message to the lateral geniculate nucleus, where a new coding is occurred and the binocular ...
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Ultrafast Ultrasound Plane Wave Imaging As a Novel non-Invasive Technique to Assess Diaphragm Contractility in Response to Phrenic Nerve Magnetic Stimulation
... Because of non-normality, Friedman repeated measures ANOVA were used to evaluate the effect of stimulation intensity of Pdi tw and Vdi max . Tukey’s post-hoc were performed if a significant main effect of ...
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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and placebo analgesia: is the effect the same for young and older individuals?
... Keywords: pain, ageing, elderly, sham treatment, placebo, rehabilitation, electrotherapy Plain language summary Simulated medical interventions (commonly referred to as placebo treatments) have been shown to reduce pain ...
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Efficacy of a combination of hypnosis and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for chronic non‐cancer pain: A randomized controlled trial
... electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), hypnosis, acupuncture and cognitive behavioural therapy, which are often offered to patients by pain specialists, including ...
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Selective relay of afferent sensory-induced action potentials from peripheral nerve to brain and the effects of electrical stimulation
... We see a similar trend in the medium pain frequency range, but the maximum SR is lower. Effectively, with a higher pain frequency, it becomes more difficult to block all the noxious APs. When the pain frequency is high, ...
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Combining transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation with therapeutic exercise to reduce pain in an elderly population: a pilot study
... 6 2017. The intervention protocols were carried out over 4 weeks, and consisted of eight 45- minute-long group therapeutic exercise sessions administered twice a week. Participants were randomly assigned to the ...
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Neurotization of the superficial sensory branch of ulnar nerve by the distal posterior interosseous nerve: cadaveric feasibility study
... PIN nerve lies approximately ...the nerve contains exclusively proprioceptive sensory fibers destined to provide sensory innervation to the joint capsule, it can be transferred without risk of subsequent ...
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La stimulation magnétique transcrânienne et la stimulation électrique fonctionnelle : des outils émergents au secours des cliniciens
... 1.2.1. Stimulation électrique fonctionnelle Les vertus de l’électricité ont été observées dès ...la stimulation électrique fonctionnelle au niveau du pied tombant (7), technique encore étudiée à ce ...la ...
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Neurotization of the superficial sensory branch of ulnar nerve by the distal posterior interosseous nerve: cadaveric feasibility study
... donor nerve has successively transitioned from the palmar branch of the median nerve to the common palmar digital nerve (CPDN) of the third web space, allowing for satisfac- tory grade S3 sensation ...
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Structure-Function Relationships With Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer and Optic Nerve Head Measurements
... DISCUSSION In this study, we found a significant regional relationship between visual field sensitivity and retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and optic nerve head measurements with spectral-domain OCT. ...
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