treatment: vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
This treatment utilizes an implanted device to stimulate the vagus nerve by way of an attached electrode.
- VNS Therapy™
Pulse Generator (Cyberonics) FDA approved: for
adjunctive long term treatment
of chronic or recurrent depression
for patients 18 years of age or older who are experiencing a
Major Depressive Episode and have
not had an adequate response to four or more adequate antidepressant
treatments 7.15.2005
U.S. Physician's Manual
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- Donovan, Charles Out of the Black Hole: The Patient's Guide to Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression
Hardcover 2005
