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Vagus Nerve Stimulation

"Vagus Nerve Stimulation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Vagus Nerve Stimulation" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Vagus Nerve Stimulation" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 114 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2022
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.