Cervical vagus nerve stimulation for treatment-resistant depression

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-282

  Carpenter, Linda L ^a   Friehs, Gerhard M ^a   Price, Lawrence H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; LAMOTRIGINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL MODEL; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0346997035     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1042-3680(02)00121-3     Document Type: Review

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