improving sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, and cognitive function in patients with dementia by therapeutic exercise and NESA neuromodulation: a multicenter …

E Teruel-Hernández, JA López-Pina… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dementia is a progressive decline in cognitive functions caused by an alteration in the
pattern of neural network connections. There is an inability to create new neuronal …

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) modulates synaptic plasticity in the infralimbic cortex via Trk-B receptor activation to reduce drug-seeking in male rats

CM Driskill, JE Childs, AJ Phensy… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Drugs of abuse cause changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and associated regions that
impair inhibitory control over drug-seeking. Breaking the contingencies between drug …

[HTML][HTML] Vagus nerve stimulation for the treatment of narcolepsy

Y Winter, K Sandner, CLA Bassetti, M Glaser, D Ciolac… - Brain stimulation, 2024 - Elsevier
Background and objective No study on neurostimulation in narcolepsy is available until now.
Arousal-and wake-promoting effects of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) have been …

[HTML][HTML] Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics

RV Raut, ZP Rosenthal, X Wang, H Miao, Z Zhang… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neural activity in awake organisms shows widespread and spatiotemporally diverse
correlations with behavioral and physiological measurements. We propose that this …

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on upper limb motor function with stroke: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy pilot study

L Wang, F Gao, Y Dai, Z Wang, F Liang, J Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) emerges as a
promising neuromodulatory technique. However, taVNS uses left ear stimulation in stroke …

Breast Cancer: How Hippotherapy Bridges the Gap between Healing and Recovery—A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

H Viruega, C Galy, C Loriette, S Jacquot, JL Houpeau… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Breast cancer is the most diagnosed women's cancer, and has a high
survival rate nowadays. Because cancer is a systemic disease characterized by a variable …

The Locus Coeruleus: Where Cognitive and Emotional Processing Meet the Eye

R Huang, D Clewett - Modern Pupillometry: Cognition, Neuroscience, and …, 2024 - Springer
The pupil offers a window into how arousal shapes the way we think, learn, and behave. Yet,
arousal is a complex and multifaceted construct, leaving many open questions about the …

Arousal states as a key source of variability in speech perception and learning

WL Schuerman, B Chandrasekaran, MK Leonard - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
The human brain exhibits the remarkable ability to categorize speech sounds into distinct,
meaningful percepts, even in challenging tasks like learning non-native speech categories …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation paired with tones on electrophysiological markers of auditory perception

KS Rufener, C Wienke, A Salanje, A Haghikia… - Brain Stimulation, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) has been
introduced as a non-invasive alternative to invasive vagus nerve stimulation (iVNS). While …

Current status of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation for tinnitus: a narrative review of modern research

Q Wu, J Wang, D Han, L Qian, H Hu… - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Tinnitus, characterized by phantom sound perception, is a highly disruptive disorder lacking
definitive and effective treatments. Its intricate neural mechanisms are not fully understood …