Galvanic vestibular stimulation: a novel modulatory countermeasure for vestibular-associated movement disorders

Rizzo-Sierra, Carlos V.; Gonzalez-Castaño, Alexander; León-Sarmiento, Fidias E.

doi:10.1590/0004-282x20130182

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“…One only has to consider the limited range of pharmaceuticals now available for treating vertigo and motion sickness to realize the great demand for new strategies. Such ideas include a highly optimized GVS, a centrifuge creating g levels for long-term space missions, GVS for modulating motor hemi-neglect, vestibular compensation, and more generally motor and balance disorders (Rizzo-Sierra et al, 2014 ; An, 2015 ), as well as multisensory “virtual” rehabilitation suggested by recent advances in immersive virtual environments.…”

Section: Development Of Vestibular Functionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: The Vestibular System in Cognitive and Memory Processes in Mammalians

Besnard

Lopez

Brandt

et al. 2015

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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International audienceIn the nineteenth century Pierre–Jean–Marie Flourens (1825) and Ernst Mach described the vestibular system and its peripheral organs while Robert Barany, rewarded by the Nobel prize in 1914, was the first to investigate vestibular disorders with caloric tests making surgical treatments of the vestibular organ possible. Recently, Graf and Klam (2006) have reminded us that this ancient sensory system appeared more than 500 million years ago. Logically its influence would most likely not be restricted to balance reflexes at the brainstem level; it must have also shaped our brain. The vestibular system is the one sensory organ dedicated to gravity perception, which along with light and oxygen served as a motor of evolution. In the 1950s the groups of Otto–Joachim Grüsser in Germany, Wilder Penfield in Canada, and later the group of Alain Berthoz in France, demonstrated in elegant experiments on awake monkey (Guldin and Grüsser, 1998), epileptic patient (Penfield, 1957), and neurologically-normal human (Lobel et al., 1999) the existence of vestibular projections to the cortex and how they combine with visual and proprioceptive information. An increasing number of researchers, often fervent disciples, have built on these findings to produce a spate of publications that have consolidated the evidence for a sense of verticality and three-dimensional body representations within the vestibular cortical areas. In the 1990s Paul Smith and colleagues examined vestibular processing in the hippocampus and its role in spatial memory. Exploring this topic in the rodent (Smith, 1997), they began to elucidate the secrets and the previously silent functions of the vestibular system. These findings led to increasing clarity about how vestibular degeneration may be related to some aspects of dementia (Previc, 2013), psychiatric diseases (Gurvich et al., 2013), and cognitive impairments in the elderly (Bigelow et al., 2015; Semenov et al., 2015). The research by Marianne Dieterich and Thomas Brandt has examined the bilateral organization of multiple multisensory cortical areas and revealed the vestibular dominance of the non-dominant hemisphere (Dieterich et al., 2003). They addressed the following questions: how is one global percept of motion and orientation in space formed, and does this dominance determine the lateralization of brain function such as handedness (Brandt and Dieterich, 2015)? A vestibular contribution to the most crucial aspects of the human sense of self and self-consciousness has recently been highlighted by neurological and neuroscientific investigations: vestibular signals contribute to the experience that the self is located within the boundaries of the body (Blanke et al., 2004; Lopez et al., 2008) and may even be involved in self-other discrimination and interactions (Lenggenhager and Lopez, 2015).In this Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience Research Topic initiated by Sidney Simon, twenty-four articles highlight recent discoveries in the field of vestibular cognition, including: (1) Ana...

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Section: Development Of Vestibular Functionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: The Vestibular System in Cognitive and Memory Processes in Mammalians

Besnard

Lopez

Brandt

et al. 2015

Front. Integr. Neurosci.

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“…[9] Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) is not just used in analyzing neuroadaptive behaviors of the vestibulospinal system but also in treating several vertigo related disorders. For instance, Rizzo-Sierra et al [10] suggested that GVS may control motion sickness and space adaptation syndrome. Galvanic stimulus is delivered transcutaneously at levels of 1 mA.…”

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The efficacy of vestibular electrical stimulation on patients with unilateral vestibular pathologies

Karan

Alptekin

Çapan

et al. 2017

Turk J Phys Med Rehab

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“…[ 8 ] Regarding Latin America and Portugal, a recent study showed the nonexistence of a seasonality model relating the risk of MS to MOB. [ 9 ] Another study related the risk of MS in different latitudes of South America to MOB showed that MS patients born to mothers who were pregnant at different southern latitudes do not follow the seasonal pattern observed at higher northern latitudes. [ 10 ] The Isfahan MS Society (IMSS) reported a period prevalence of 73.3/100,000 between April 2003 and July 2010, and an incidence rate of 9.1/100,000 in the year 2009.…”

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Preliminary analysis of month of birth in Iranian/Isfahan patients with multiple sclerosis

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Background:Previous publications reported that an individual's month of birth (MOB) might have an important correlation to that consequent risk of multiple sclerosis (MS).Aim:The aim of this preliminary study was to investigate the distribution of different MOBs inpatients with MS in Isfahan, Iran.Materials and Methods:This investigation was conducted to the Isfahan Neurosciences Research Centre. 1283 patients with MS were studied. Clinical data were recorded in d-Base and analyzed using SPSS (version 18) for Windows.Results:Of the total population studied there were 979 females and 304 males. The mean age of all the patients was 34.6 years (range 10-87 years). Within the total population, the MOBs in the 62% of patients were in the season's spring and summer, and in 38% of patients they were in the season's autumn and winter. As the MOB might be recognized to have a bearing on an individual's risk of contracting MS, the highest and lowest correlations seem to be linked with April, September, May (↑), and November (↓), respectively.Conclusions:The seasonal relationship between MOBs and MS risk might be pointed toward a potential function for vitamin D throughout pregnancy or the early life of the newborn. Further studies are needed to confirm these correlations.

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Galvanic vestibular stimulation: a novel modulatory countermeasure for vestibular-associated movement disorders

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Editorial: The Vestibular System in Cognitive and Memory Processes in Mammalians

Editorial: The Vestibular System in Cognitive and Memory Processes in Mammalians

The efficacy of vestibular electrical stimulation on patients with unilateral vestibular pathologies

Preliminary analysis of month of birth in Iranian/Isfahan patients with multiple sclerosis

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