ReviewExperimental brain research2017
The new vestibular stimuli: sound and vibration-anatomical, physiological and clinical evidence.
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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
- Clinical Application of Galvanic Vestibular-Evoked Myogenic Potentials in Audiovestibular Disorders-A Systemic Review.Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-facialePooled it
- Evolutionary modularity of the primate vestibular system: Morphological distinction of otolithic and canalicular organs.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Multiscale Integration of Acceleration and Jerk Sensing in the Vestibular System.Audiology research · 2026Review
- Ageing changes the proprioceptive contribution to balance control under different types of mastoid vibration: A cross-sectional study.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Vestibular contributions to balance control during stair negotiation versus walking and changes with aging.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
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- Horizontal head-shaking test: pathophysiological mechanisms and clinical interpretation.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Skull vibration induced nystagmus, velocity storage and self-stability.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Correlation of skull vibration-induced nystagmus test and video head impulse test in patients with sudden sensorineural hearing loss with vertigo.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- The neural basis of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials. The cVEMP is a specific indicator of saccular function.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Auditory pathway for detection of vibration in the tokay gecko.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- Focused Update on Clinical Testing of Otolith Organs.Audiology research · 2024Review
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- Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its origin.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Vestibular Testing-New Physiological Results for the Optimization of Clinical VEMP Stimuli.Audiology research · 2023Review
- Using macular velocity measurements to relate parameters of bone conduction to vestibular compound action potential responses.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A Review of Neural Data and Modelling to Explain How a Semicircular Canal Dehiscence (SCD) Causes Enhanced VEMPs, Skull Vibration Induced Nystagmus (SVIN), and the Tullio Phenomenon.Audiology research · 2023Review
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- A reliable and reproducible protocol for sound-evoked vestibular myogenic potentials in rattus norvegicus.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
The classical view of the otoliths-as flat plates of fairly uniform receptors activated by linear acceleration dragging on otoconia and so deflecting the receptor hair bundles-has been replaced by new anatomical and physiological evidence which shows that the maculae are much more complex. There is anatomical spatial differentiation across the macula in terms of receptor types, hair bundle heights, stiffness and attachment to the overlying otolithic membrane. This anatomical spatial differentiation corresponds to the neural spatial differentiation of response dynamics from the receptors and afferents from different regions of the otolithic maculae. Specifically, receptors in a specialized band of cells, the striola, are predominantly type I receptors, with short, stiff hair bundles and looser attachment to the overlying otoconial membrane than extrastriolar receptors. At the striola the hair bundles project into holes in the otolithic membrane, allowing for fluid displacement to deflect the hair bundles and activate the cell. This review shows the anatomical and physiological evidence supporting the hypothesis that fluid displacement, generated by sound or vibration, deflects the short stiff hair bundles of type I receptors at the striola, resulting in neural activation of the irregular afferents innervating them. So these afferents are activated by sound or vibration and show phase-locking to individual cycles of the sound or vibration stimulus up to frequencies above 2000 Hz, underpinning the use of sound and vibration for clinical tests of vestibular function.
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