Baseline heart rate variability as guide to transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in depression

Vagus & HRV · Translational Psychiatry · 2025

Randomised crossover trial (n=110): ear-vagus stimulation effects on stress reactivity depended on resting HRV, not on diagnosis.

Authors

Schiweck, Aichholzer et al.

Research lens

Randomised crossover trial (n=110): ear-vagus stimulation effects on stress reactivity depended on resting HRV, not on diagnosis.

  • vagus
  • hrv
  • taVNS
  • depression
  • new-2026-10