About this Research Topic
So far, invasive VNS has been used to study cognitive functioning only in patients with epilepsy and major depression. However, the present Research Topic would like to focus not on clinical populations but on healthy humans and how tVNS may be a useful tool to further investigate the neuromodulation of cognitive and affective processes by noradrenaline (NA) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the two main neurotransmitters enhanced by tVNS.
To this end, we are calling for papers examining cognitive and affective consequences of tVNS. Also mechanistic approaches studying the neurobiological aspects of tVNS are welcome. Accordingly, we welcome original studies, opinion, review or theoretical papers on these aspects to enhance the current knowledge on how tVNS exerts its effect on cognitive and affective processes.
Keywords: Vagus nerve, tVNS, Cognition, Affective, Neurobiological
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