electroCore Announces Publication in Brain Stimulation Highlighting Non-Invasive Vagal Nerve Stimulation’s (nVNS) Potential Role in Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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[{"type":"text","content":"BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- electroCore, Inc. (Nasdaq: ECOR), a commercial-stage bioelectronic medicine company, today announced the publication of a paper, entitled, “Non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation decreases brain activity during trauma scripts1,” by Wittbrodt, Bremner et. al. in the journal Brain Stimulation.\n The paper reports on a double-blind sham-controlled study of nineteen participants who had experienced trauma but did not have the diagnosis of PTSD and highlights the ability of nVNS to decrease the fear associated with emotional stress. The authors hypothesized that nVNS could mitigate the stress associated with traumatic triggers compared to a sham device based on its ability to decrease the level of neural activity in areas of the brain believed to be responsible for the negative reaction. Throughout several regions of the brain, stimulation with nVNS lead to significant (P","length":1076,"tagName":"div"}]

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