ArticleExperimental brain research2006
Modeling postural instability with Galvanic vestibular stimulation.
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- Comparison Between Effects of Galvanic and Vibration-Based Vestibular Stimulation on Postural Control and Gait Performance in Healthy Participants: A Systematic Review of Cross-Sectional Studies.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Pooled it
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- Motion sensations, postural sway, and side effects for copolar galvanic vestibular stimulation.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Exploring GVS as a display modality: cutaneous sensations and cue association maintenance.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation induces stochastic resonance in vestibular perceptual thresholds assessed efficiently using confidence reports.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Induced electric fields in MRI settings and electric vestibular stimulations: same vestibular effects?Experimental brain research · 2024Review
- Development of a ground-based sensorimotor disorientation analog to replicate astronaut postflight experience.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
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- Thresholds for vestibular and cutaneous perception and oculomotor response induced by galvanic vestibular stimulation.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- The role of spatial acuity in a dynamic balancing task without gravitational cues.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Using Positive Attribute Framing to Attenuate Nocebo Side Effects: A Cybersickness Study.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- The role of vestibular cues in postural sway.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- The Effect of Noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation on Learning of Functional Mobility and Manual Control Nulling Sensorimotor Tasks.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Galvanic vestibular stimulation with low intensity improves dynamic balance.Translational neuroscience · 2021Article
- Absence of Nonlinear Coupling Between Electric Vestibular Stimulation and Evoked Forces During Standing Balance.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effects of perceptible and imperceptible galvanic vestibular stimulation on the postural control of patients with bilateral vestibulopathy.Journal of neurology · 2020Article
- Electrical Vestibular Stimulation in Humans: A Narrative Review.Audiology & neuro-otology · 2020Review
- Postural control during galvanic vestibular stimulation in patients with persistent perceptual-postural dizziness.Journal of neurology · 2019Article
- Calibrating balance perturbation using electrical stimulation of the vestibular system.Journal of neuroscience methods · 2019Article
- Assessing Somatosensory Utilization during Unipedal Postural Control.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
In this study the effect of a pseudorandom binaural bipolar Galvanic stimulus generated by a sum of nonharmonically related sine waves on postural control was functionally assessed using computerized dynamic posturography (CDP), and the results compared to vestibulopathic patient populations and astronauts exposed to microgravity. The standardized CDP test battery comprised six sensory organization tests (SOTs) that combined three visual conditions (eyes open, eyes closed, and sway-referenced vision) with two proprioceptive conditions (fixed and sway-referenced support surfaces). Subjects (12) performed 18 randomized trials (three trials of each of the six SOTs) as a baseline, repeated the 18 trials with Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS), and then performed a post-GVS baseline. A 10 min rest period was inserted between each test battery. Anterioposterior postural sway increased significantly and was in the abnormal range (fifth percentile) during GVS for SOTs where visual input was compromised (sway-referenced surround) or absent. Postural stability returned to baseline when GVS was removed. An analysis of sensory input scores (somatosensory, visual, and vestibular) demonstrated the specificity of GVS in distorting vestibular input to postural control. The SOT scores observed in astronauts on landing day did not differ significantly to that generated by GVS in our normal subjects. GVS also induced a similar pattern of instability on CDP as profound bilateral vestibular loss, although not as severe. The results suggest that unpredictably varying GVS quantitatively and qualitatively models postural instability of vestibular origin.
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