Is there a role for vagus nerve stimulation therapy as a treatment of traumatic brain injury?

Vagal Stimulation Modulates Inflammation through a Ghrelin Mediated Mechanism in Traumatic Brain Injury

(2011) Vishal Bansal et al.   INFLAMMATION

Clinical Relevance of Cortical Spreading Depression in Neurological Disorders: Migraine, Malignant Stroke, Subarachnoid and Intracranial Hemorrhage, and Traumatic Brain Injury

(2010) Martin Lauritzen et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Nonconvulsive seizures after traumatic brain injury are associated with hippocampal atrophy

(2010) P. M. Vespa et al.   NEUROLOGY

Stimulating the Central Nervous System to Prevent Intestinal Dysfunction After Traumatic Brain Injury

(2010) Vishal Bansal et al.   JOURNAL OF TRAUMA-INJURY INFECTION AND CRITICAL CARE

Normobaric hyperoxia therapy for traumatic brain injury and stroke: a review

(2009) Ashwin Kumaria et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY

Vagus nerve stimulation reduces infarct size in rat focal cerebral ischemia

(2009) Ilknur Ay et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

In vitromodels of neurotrauma

(2008) A. Kumaria et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY

Association of seizures with cortical spreading depression and peri-infarct depolarisations in the acutely injured human brain

(2008) Martin Fabricius et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Effects of vagus nerve stimulation on rat hippocampal progenitor proliferation

(2008) David Revesz et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

The regulation of adult rodent hippocampal neurogenesis by deep brain stimulation

(2008) Hiroki Toda et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY

NMDA receptors in clinical neurology: excitatory times ahead

(2008) Lorraine V Kalia et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Increased vagal tone accounts for the observed immune paralysis in patients with traumatic brain injury

(2008) M. Kox et al.   NEUROLOGY

ATP signalling in epilepsy

(2008) Ashwin Kumaria et al.   Purinergic Signalling