Precise sound characteristics drive plasticity in the primary auditory cortex with VNS-sound pairing

MS Borland, EP Buell, JR Riley, AM Carroll… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Repeatedly pairing a tone with vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) alters frequency
tuning across the auditory pathway. Pairing VNS with speech sounds selectively enhances …

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation to acutely reduce emotional vulnerability and improve emotional regulation in borderline personality disorder (tVNS …

G Guerriero, SI Liljedahl, HK Carlsen, M López Muñoz… - Trials, 2024 - Springer
Background Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is considered a disorder of emotion
regulation resulting from the expression of a biologically determined emotional vulnerability …

Optimization of Temporal Coding of Tactile Information in Rat Thalamus by Locus Coeruleus Activation

C Rodenkirch, Q Wang - Biology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The locus coeruleus–norepinephrine (LC-NE) system plays a critical role
in regulating various brain functions through its diffuse projections in the brain. However …

Synergistic effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation and inhibitory control training on electrophysiological performance in healthy adults

C Wang, L Zeng, X Cao, J Dai, Y Liu, Z Gao… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS) is a non-invasive nerve stimulation
technique that exerts a positive “exogenous” online neuromodulatory effect on inhibitory …

[HTML][HTML] Transcutaneous cervical vagus nerve stimulation improves sensory performance in humans

M Jigo, JB Carmel, Q Wang, C Rodenkirch - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Accurate senses depend on high-fidelity encoding by sensory receptors and error-free
processing in the brain. Progress has been made towards restoring damaged sensory …

[PDF][PDF] Neuromodulation of Neural Oscillations in Health and Disease. Biology 2023, 12, 371

E Weiss, M Kann, Q Wang - 2023 - mdpi.com
Using EEG and local field potentials (LFPs) as an index of large-scale neural activities,
research has been able to associate neural oscillations in different frequency bands with …