Vagus Nerve Stimulation

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1142-1151

  Amar, Arun Paul ^a   Levy, Michael L ^b   Liu, Charles Y ^c   Apuzzc, Michael L J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; epilepsy; neurostimulation; seizure; vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008040028     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.922569     Document Type: Article

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