Current and future perspectives on vagus nerve stimulation in treatment-resistant depression

Deep Brain Stimulation: Applications, Complications and Side Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 177-188

  Dell'Osso, Bernardo ^a   Camuri, Giulia ^a   Oldani, Lucio ^a   Carlo Altamura, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Treatment resistant depression (TRD); Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955925069     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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