didgens Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 http://www.pr.com/press-release/583193 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didgens Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 this paragraph I found particularly interesting gammaCore is a revolutionary non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) therapy developed by US based healthcare company electroCore. The patient delivers the therapy by holding the device on the neck over the vagus nerve for 90 seconds which painlessly delivers a proprietary electrical signal that activates specific fibers in the vagus nerve bundle. This stimulates the production of inhibitory transmitters in the central nervous system, and reduces the over expression of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate, which has been implicated in a number of headache disorders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didgens Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 just adding more info for no reason in particular http://neurotransporter.org/glutamate.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lieutenant2 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Don't get too overly-excited about this thing. Their European trial results were meh, at best. The two people I know who were in on the initial US trial got no relief from it. It's a reach, at best. . .at very low-risk to the company, because it's non-invasive and non-pharmaceutical, so their development costs are nil. Now, studying glutamatergic activity and various inhibitors, well, that's not a bad place to look if you know what you're looking at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didgens Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 cool thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHfather Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 This is the company's press release about the latest gammaCore results: http://www.electrocoremedical.com/randomized-data-presented-at-international-headache-meeting-ehmtici-shows-gammacore-significantly-reduces-cluster-headache-attack-frequency-the-worst-pain-known-to-medical-scienc More detail: Posters presented at European headache organization meeting (top three): http://ecorelibrary.com/?m=1Â (There might be a simple sign-in to see these.) Thread at this board from one US test subject: https://www.clusterheadaches.com/cb/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1388946884/0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didgens Posted October 1, 2014 Author Share Posted October 1, 2014 thanks CHf I hadn't come across david's posts .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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