 Vagus Nerve Stimulation
"Vagus Nerve Stimulation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An adjunctive treatment for PARTIAL EPILEPSY and refractory DEPRESSION that delivers electrical impulses to the brain via the VAGUS NERVE. A battery implanted under the skin supplies the energy.
| Descriptor ID |
D055536
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.342.900 E02.779.468.900
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| Concept/Terms |
Vagus Nerve Stimulation- Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- Nerve Stimulation, Vagus
- Nerve Stimulations, Vagus
- Stimulation, Vagus Nerve
- Stimulations, Vagus Nerve
- Vagus Nerve Stimulations
- Vagal Nerve Stimulation
- Nerve Stimulation, Vagal
- Nerve Stimulations, Vagal
- Stimulation, Vagal Nerve
- Stimulations, Vagal Nerve
- Vagal Nerve Stimulations
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vagus Nerve Stimulation" by people in Profiles.
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Cukiert A, Rydenhag B, Harkness W, Cross JH, Gaillard WD. Technical aspects of pediatric epilepsy surgery: Report of a multicenter, multinational web-based survey by the ILAE Task Force on Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery. Epilepsia. 2016 Feb; 57(2):194-200.
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Thompson EM, Wozniak SE, Roberts CM, Kao A, Anderson VC, Selden NR. Vagus nerve stimulation for partial and generalized epilepsy from infancy to adolescence. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Sep; 10(3):200-5.
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Oluigbo CO, Rezai AR. Addressing neurological disorders with neuromodulation. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2011 Jul; 58(7):1907-17.
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