Vagus Nerve Stimulation

Product Description


Vagus nerve stimulation is rapidly being considered one of the most exciting areas of clinical advancement, with broad areas of interest that cross multiple disciplines. There is a tremendous amount of animal research being done. With the ability to stimulate the vagus nerve non-invasively, scientists now have the ability to translate the basic science work into clinical practice without the need for surgical intervention.
Vagus Nerve Stimulation serves as a compendium of what is known about stimulating the vagus nerve in many different disease states. Chapters include applications to neurologic conditions, psychiatric conditions, inflammatory conditions, metabolic disease, reperfusion injuries, and cardiac disease.


Review


Comprehensive overview of VNS applications to different diseases


From the Back Cover


Vagus nerve stimulation is rapidly being considered one of the most exciting areas of clinical advancement, with broad areas of interest that cross multiple disciplines. There is a tremendous amount of animal research being done. With the ability to stimulate the vagus nerve non-invasively, scientists now have the ability to translate the basic science work into clinical practice without the need for surgical intervention.
Vagus Nerve Stimulation serves as a compendium of what is known about stimulating the vagus nerve in many different disease states. Chapters include applications to neurologic conditions, psychiatric conditions, inflammatory conditions, metabolic disease, reperfusion injuries, and cardiac disease.


About the Author


Peter S. Staats, MD, MBA is a board-certified physician specializing in pain medicine. Currently, Dr. Staats is seeing patients at Premier Pain Centers, a pain management practice with seven locations throughout New Jersey. He has been consistently recognized as one of the country’s foremost pain management doctors. This includes being named one of America’s Top Doctors by U.S. News and World Report for the last decade, noted as being among the top 1% of pain management physicians in the country. He has been acknowledged as one of New Jersey’s Top Doctors from New Jersey Monthly magazine for the past seven years. Dr. Staats was also the recipient of the Outstanding Pain Physician award, a national recognition as selected by his peers in the interventional pain medicine community.Dr. Staats is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Pain Medicine, and the American Board of Anesthesiology. He is also a fellow of the World Institute of Pain and the North American Neuromodulation Society. He is the author of over 200 articles, abstracts and chapters regarding pain management, and has written several books on the science of pain medicine.

Dr. Ayata is a Neurologist and a clinician-scientist dedicated to translational research on neurovascular function and dysfunction. He explores therapies to augment perfusion and oxygenation in acute stroke (e.g., hyperoxia, induced hypertension, Rho-kinase inhibition), the pathophysiological roles of injury depolarizations in stroke, and targeting spreading depression in migraine. Dr. Ayata is expert in non-invasive in vivo investigations of cerebrovascular physiology and pathophysiology in mice under full systemic physiological control. In collaboration with Dr. Joutel, Dr. Ayata defined a novel enhanced CSD-susceptibility phenotype in Notch3R90C mutant mice, providing an explanation for the increased incidence and severity of migraine with aura in CADASIL patients.

Dr. Lerman is a board-certified neurologist who specializes in pain management. He has extensive experience in ultrasound guidance for interventional pain procedures and interventional headache treatment, teaching and speaking nationally on these subjects. As an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UC San Diego School of Medicine, Dr. Lerman carries out numerous clinical trials at UC San Diego Medical Center, t