{"pk":30175,"title":"Auricular Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) Affects Mood and\nAnxiety during Second Language Learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) has been used to address the\nsymptoms of treatment-resistant depression (Rush et al., 2000)\nand is proposed to also alleviate anxiety effects (George et al.,\n2008). Transcutaneous VNS (tVNS) offers a less invasive\ntreatment mechanism for clinical populations; however, little is\nknown about tVNS effects on mood and anxiety in a non-\nclinical adult population. Using auricular tVNS, the present\nstudy showed that 10 minutes of tVNS immediately preceding\nsecond-language learning across three consecutive days\nreduced state negative affect, somatic anxiety, and cognitive\nanxiety, dependent on task performance and/or trait\nmood/anxiety.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"tVNS; mood; anxiety; second language learning"}],"section":"Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9661j84b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Regina","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Calloway","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Maryland","department":""},{"first_name":"Valerie","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Karuzis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Maryland","department":""},{"first_name":"Alison","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tseng","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Maryland","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Martinez","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Maryland","department":""},{"first_name":"Polly","middle_name":"","last_name":"O’Rourke","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Maryland","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30175/galley/20029/download/"}]}