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| Title |
Vagus nerve stimulation for treatment-resistant mood disorders: a long-term naturalistic study
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| Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12888-015-0435-8 |
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| Authors |
Umberto Albert, Giuseppe Maina, Andrea Aguglia, Alberto Vitalucci, Filippo Bogetto, Chiara Fronda, Alessandro Ducati, Michele Lanotte |
| Abstract |
Limited therapeutic options are available for patients with treatment-refractory major depression who do not respond to routinely available therapies. Vagus nerve stimulation showed adjunctive antidepressant effect in chronic treatment resistant depression, even though available studies rarely exceed 2-year follow up. We report a naturalistic 5-year follow up of five patients who received VNS implant for resistant depression (3 patients with major depressive disorder and 2 with bipolar disorder). Response was defined as a reduction of the 17-item HDRS total score ≥50% with respect to baseline, remission as a score ≤7. Response and remission rates were both 40% (2/5) after 1 year, and 60% (3/5) at 5 years. Two patients withdrew from the study because of side effects or inefficacy of stimulation. Our case series showed that long-term VNS may be effective in reducing severity of depression in a small but significant minority of patients, although two patients had stimulation terminated because of adverse effects and/or refusal to continue the study. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Greece | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 99 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 99 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 13% |
| Researcher | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 18 | 18% |
| Unknown | 22 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 28% |
| Neuroscience | 15 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 7% |
| Psychology | 6 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 12 | 12% |
| Unknown | 28 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 October 2015.
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