Ready for translation: non-invasive auricular vagus nerve stimulation inhibits psychophysiological indices of stimulus-specific fear and facilitates responding to repeated exposure in phobic individuals

Abstract Recent laboratory research showed that vagus nerve stimulation promotes fear extinction, the inhibitory core mechanism of exposure treatment, presumably via activation of the noradrenergic brain system. However, a translation of this stimulation technique to clinical practice is lacking. We...

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Main Authors: Christoph Szeska, Kai Klepzig, Alfons O. Hamm, Mathias Weymar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2025-04-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03352-0
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