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

Affiliations

• 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.