Efficacy and brain mechanism of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation for adolescents with mild to moderate depression: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

• Main Authors: Xue Xiao (Author), Xiaobing Hou (Author), Zhangjing Zhang (Author), Ying Li (Author), Xue Yu (Author), Yanhui Wang (Author), Jing Tian (Author), Ke Xu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT Background Depression is a common mental illness in childhood and adolescence, with an incidence of 4%-5%; it can lead to impairments in learning and social functioning. Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a commonly used method of auricular acupuncture point stimula...