International Consensus Based Review and Recommendations for Minimum Reporting Standards in Research on Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (Version 2020)

Author: Adam D Farmer¹, Adam Strzelczyk², Alessandra Finisguerra³, Alexander V Gourine⁴, Alireza Gharabaghi⁵, Alkomiet Hasan^6,7, Andreas M Burger⁸, Andrés M Jaramillo⁹, Ann Mertens¹⁰, Arshad Majid¹¹, Bart Verkuil¹², Bashar W Badran¹³, Carlos Ventura-Bort¹⁴, Charly Gaul¹⁵, Christian Beste¹⁶, Christopher M Warren¹⁷, Daniel S Quintana^18,19,20, Dorothea Hämmerer^21,22,23, Elena Freri²⁴, Eleni Frangos²⁵, Eleonora Tobaldini^26,27, Eugenijus Kaniusas^28,29, Felix Rosenow², Fioravante Capone³⁰, Fivos Panetsos³¹, Gareth L Ackland³², Gaurav Kaithwas³³, Georgia H O'Leary¹³, Hannah Genheimer³⁴, Heidi I L Jacobs^35,36, Ilse Van Diest³⁷, Jean Schoenen³⁸, Jessica Redgrave¹¹, Jiliang Fang³⁹, Jim Deuchars⁴⁰, Jozsef C Széles⁴¹, Julian F Thayer⁴², Kaushik More^43,44, Kristl Vonck¹⁰, Laura Steenbergen⁴⁵, Lauro C Vianna⁴⁶, Lisa M McTeague¹³, Mareike Ludwig⁴⁷, Maria G Veldhuizen⁴⁸, Marijke De Couck^49,50, Marina Casazza⁵¹, Marius Keute⁵, Marom Bikson⁵², Marta Andreatta^34,53, Martina D'Agostini³⁷, Mathias Weymar^14,54, Matthew Betts^47,55,56, Matthias Prigge⁴⁴, Michael Kaess^57,58, Michael Roden^59,60,61, Michelle Thai⁶², Nathaniel M Schuster⁶³, Nicola Montano^26,27, Niels Hansen^64,65, Nils B Kroemer⁶⁶, Peijing Rong⁶⁷, Rico Fischer⁶⁸, Robert H Howland⁶⁹, Roberta Sclocco^70,71, Roberta Sellaro^72,73,74, Ronald G Garcia^75,76, Sebastian Bauer², Sofiya Gancheva^59,60,77, Stavros Stavrakis⁷⁸, Stefan Kampusch^28,29, Susan A Deuchars⁴⁰, Sven Wehner⁷⁹, Sylvain Laborde⁸⁰, Taras Usichenko^81,82, Thomas Polak⁸³, Tino Zaehle⁸⁴, Uirassu Borges^80,85, Vanessa Teckentrup⁶⁶, Vera K Jandackova^86,87, Vitaly Napadow^70,71, Julian Koenig^57,88
Affiliation: ¹ Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom. ² Department of Neurology, Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. ³ Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Pasian di Prato, Italy. ⁴ Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom. ⁵ Institute for Neuromodulation and Neurotechnology, University Hospital and University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany. ⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany. ⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. ⁸ Laboratory for Biological Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. ⁹ Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany. ¹⁰ Department of Neurology, Institute for Neuroscience, 4Brain, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium. ¹¹ Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. ¹² Clinical Psychology and the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands. ¹³ Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States. ¹⁴ Department of Biological Psychology and Affective Science, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. ¹⁵ Migraine and Headache Clinic Koenigstein, Königstein im Taunus, Germany. ¹⁶ Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. ¹⁷ Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States. ¹⁸ NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. ¹⁹ Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. ²⁰ KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. ²¹ Medical Faculty, Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. ²² Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom. ²³ Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences Magdeburg (CBBS), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. ²⁴ Department of Pediatric Neuroscience, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy. ²⁵ Pain and Integrative Neuroscience Branch, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States. ²⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy. ²⁷ Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy. ²⁸ Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria. ²⁹ SzeleSTIM GmbH, Vienna, Austria. ³⁰ Unit of Neurology, Neurophysiology, Neurobiology, Department of Medicine, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy. ³¹ Faculty of Biology and Faculty of Optics, Complutense University of Madrid and Institute for Health Research, San Carlos Clinical Hospital (IdISSC), Madrid, Spain. ³² Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom. ³³ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, India. ³⁴ Department of Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. ³⁵ Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. ³⁶ Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Alzheimer Centre Limburg, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands. ³⁷ Research Group Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. ³⁸ Headache Research Unit, Department of Neurology-Citadelle Hospital, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. ³⁹ Functional Imaging Lab, Department of Radiology, Guang An Men Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. ⁴⁰ School of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Biological Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. ⁴¹ Division for Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. ⁴² Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States. ⁴³ Institute for Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. ⁴⁴ Neuromodulatory Networks, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany. ⁴⁵ Clinical and Cognitive Psychology and the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands. ⁴⁶ NeuroV̇ASQ̇ - Integrative Physiology Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil. ⁴⁷ Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey. ⁴⁸ Mental Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. ⁴⁹ Faculty of Health Care, University College Odisee, Aalst, Belgium. ⁵⁰ Division of Epileptology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy. ⁵¹ Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. ⁵² Department of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States. ⁵³ Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands. ⁵⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. ⁵⁵ Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany. ⁵⁶ Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. ⁵⁷ University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. ⁵⁸ Section for Translational Psychobiology in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. ⁵⁹ Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. ⁶⁰ Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. ⁶¹ German Center for Diabetes Research, Munich, Germany. ⁶² Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States. ⁶³ Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Pain Medicine, University of California, San Diego Health System, La Jolla, CA, United States. ⁶⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. ⁶⁵ Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience and Imaging in Psychiatry (SNIPLab), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. ⁶⁶ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. ⁶⁷ Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. ⁶⁸ Department of Psychology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. ⁶⁹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. ⁷⁰ Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States. ⁷¹ Department of Radiology, Logan University, Chesterfield, MO, United States. ⁷² Cognitive Psychology Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands. ⁷³ Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden, Netherlands. ⁷⁴ Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. ⁷⁵ Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States. ⁷⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. ⁷⁷ Heart Rhythm Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States. ⁷⁸ Faculty of Biological Science, School of Biomedical Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. ⁷⁹ Department of Surgery, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany. ⁸⁰ Department of Performance Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Deutsche Sporthochschule, Köln, Germany. ⁸¹ Department of Anesthesiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany. ⁸² Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. ⁸³ Laboratory of Functional Neurovascular Diagnostics, AG Early Diagnosis of Dementia, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. ⁸⁴ Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany. ⁸⁵ Department of Social and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Deutsche Sporthochschule, Köln, Germany. ⁸⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia. ⁸⁷ Department of Human Movement Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia. ⁸⁸ Section for Experimental Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Conference/Journal: Front Hum Neurosci
Date published: 2021 Mar 23
Other: Volume ID: 14 , Pages: 568051 , Special Notes: doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.568051. , Word Count: 244

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