Posted by noa on June 22, 2000, at 6:26:37
In reply to Re: Anyone in vagus nerve study?, posted by Oddzilla on June 21, 2000, at 16:34:38
All I know about it is that is was initially a treatment for epilepsy, but subjects in the studies reported improvement in their depression.
A friend of mine runs a support group for women with eplipsy. She told me that one of the women in the group has had the vagus nerve stimulator, and that one major negative effect, for this woman at least, is that at the exact time that the device is actually sending the electrical signal (I don't know the interval of how frequently the signal is triggered), her voice is temporarily disabled for a few seconds. So, if she is mid sentence, there is a disruption in her speech. It turns out that this woman is having the device removed because it is not effective in treating her epilepsy.
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