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Acute Effects of High Frequency Vagal Nerve Stimulation on Balance and Cognitive Motor Performance in Epilepsy: Three Case Study Reports
Author(s) -
CLARKE BEVERLEY M.,
UPTON ADRIAN R.M.,
GRIFFIN HELENE M.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1992.tb02941.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , stimulation , epilepsy , cognition , balance (ability) , adverse effect , vagus nerve , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychiatry
Quantitative measures of area of sway, total sway, and cognitive function failed to show significant differences in acute (50 minute) “ON‐OFF‐ON‐OFF” studies of high frequency left vagal stimulation in three epileptic patients undergoing treatment for chronic complex partial seizures. Fluctuation in Wood levels of anticonvulsants may have been associated with some clinicaJ effects. There were no significant adverse effects of acute left vagal stimulation in these three subjects.