Access to Vagal Projections via Cutaneous Electrical Stimulation of the Neck: fMRI Evidence in Healthy Humans

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• 作者：Eleni Frangos ; ^{frangos.eleni@gmail.com} ; Barry R. Komisaruk
• 关键词：Vagus nerve ; nVNS ; Electrical stimulation ; Non-invasive ; fMRI ; NTS
• 刊名：Brain Stimulation
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January-February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 页码：19-27
• 全文大小：1601 K
• 卷排序：10

文摘

Vagus nerve afferents can be accessed non-invasively via transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the neck. The regional brain activation elicited by the stimulation is comparable to that elicited by invasive VNS or by auricular VNS. Brainstem and forebrain regions activated by the stimulation include NTS, parabrachial area, insula, and primary sensory cortex. Deactivation was observed in the hippocampus and parahippocampus.