Scientific Summaries
At Go North Medical, evidence is the cornerstone of our mission to target the right patients at the right time. In the area of Neurology alone, over 100 articles, case studies, and other resources are published each week. To deepen the company's understanding of the field, the medical team, led by Medical Affairs Manager Martina Boström, extracts key insights from these publications. All medical team members have a research background and possess expertise in critically reviewing evidence to determine both its strengths and weaknesses.
Primarily, the team stays up-to-date with the latest scientific evidence on vagus nerve stimulation therapy and evaluates its effectiveness through critical review and analysis of relevant publications. Part of this effort is published here, with scientific summaries and reflections created by the team. These summaries emphasize the most important publications that are relevant to our field of expertise.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you are unable to find clinical evidence related to a particular area of interest.
Is epilepsy a progressive disorder? Prospects for new therapeutic approaches in temporal-lobe epilepsy
Pitkänen A, Sutula TP.
Lancet Neurol. 2002 Jul;1(3):173-81.
Vagal nerve stimulation for drug-resistant epilepsies in different age, aetiology and duration
Colicchio G, Policicchio D, Barbati G, Cesaroni E, Fuggetta F, Meglio M, Papacci F, Rychlicki F, Scerrati M, Zamponi N.
Child's Nervous System volume 26, pages811–819 (2010)
Improved quality of life and cognition after early vagal nerve stimulator implantation in children
Soleman J, Stein M, Knorr C, Datta AN, Constantini S, Fried I, Guzman R, Kramer U.
Epilepsy & Behavior 88 (2018) 139–145
Observations on the Use of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Earlier in the Course of Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy: Patients With Seizures for Six Years or Less
Helmers SL, Griesemer DA, Dean JC, Sanchez JD, Labar D, Murphy JV, Bettis D, Park YD, Shuman RM, Morris GL 3rd.
The Neurologist: May 2003 - Volume 9 - Issue 3 - p 160-164
Efficacy and tolerability of vagus nerve stimulation therapy (VNS) in Slovenian epilepsy patients: younger age and shorter duration of epilepsy might result in better outcome
Kavčič A, Kajdič N, Rener-Primec Z, Krajnc N, Žgur T.
Acta Clin Croat. 2019 Jun; 58(2): 255–264.