Autonomic function quantification and taVNS physiology

Division project · Concluded 2021

Methods to quantify autonomic nervous system function in healthy adults and to measure physiological responses to transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation, including a clinical study of taVNS for pain and fatigue in lupus.

Status: Concluded 2021
Program: Division project
Publications: 3, latest 2021
Team: 4 members

On this project

Shubham Debnath, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Todd Levy, MS

Senior Biomedical Engineer

Rohan Sen

Visiting Scholar

Theodoros Zanos, PhD

Professor & AVP

Publications

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Bioelectronic MedicineAug 2021

A method to quantify autonomic nervous system function in healthy, able-bodied individuals

International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER)May 2021

Noninvasive, multimodal assessment of physiological responses to transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation

Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesNov 2020

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation reduces pain and fatigue in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled pilot trial

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