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ArticleScientific reports2017

Plasticity within excitatory and inhibitory pathways of the vestibulo-spinal circuitry guides changes in motor performance.

Diana E Mitchell, Charles C Della Santina, Kathleen E Cullen

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Optimal Human Passive Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Adaptation Does Not Rely on Passive Training.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2018
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  5. Vestibular prosthesis: from basic research to clinics.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023
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  15. Human Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Adaptation Training: Time Beats Quantity.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2018
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3 authors.

Diana E MitchellDepartment of Physiology McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Charles C Della SantinaDepartment of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Kathleen E CullenDepartment of Physiology McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. kathleen.cullen@mcgill.ca.

Funding

The Physiology of Vestibular CompensationR01DC002390 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Kathleen E Cullen · 1995 to 2026
$10.7M
Electrical Stimulation to Restore Three Dimensional Vestibular SensationR01DC009255 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DELLA SANTINA, CHARLES C · 2008 to 2018
$5.7M
CIHRNIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC002390NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009255
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investigations of behaviors with well-characterized circuitry are required to understand how the brain learns new motor skills and ensures existing behaviors remain appropriately calibrated over time. Accordingly, here we recorded from neurons within different sites of the vestibulo-spinal circuitry of behaving macaque monkeys during temporally precise activation of vestibular afferents. Behaviorally relevant patterns of vestibular nerve activation generated a rapid and substantial decrease in the monosynaptic responses recorded at the first central stage of processing from neurons receiving direct input from vestibular afferents within minutes, as well as a decrease in the compensatory reflex response that lasted up to 8 hours. In contrast, afferent responses to this same stimulation remained constant, indicating that plasticity was not induced at the level of the periphery but rather at the afferent-central neuron synapse. Strikingly, the responses of neurons within indirect brainstem pathways also remained constant, even though the efficacy of their central input was significantly reduced. Taken together, our results show that rapid plasticity at the first central stage of vestibulo-spinal pathways can guide changes in motor performance, and that complementary plasticity on the same millisecond time scale within inhibitory vestibular nuclei networks contributes to ensuring a relatively robust behavioral output.

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Neuronal PlasticityVestibular Evoked Myogenic PotentialsAnimalsBrain StemMacaca mulattaMaleNeural InhibitionNeuronsNeurons, AfferentReflexSpinal CordVestibular Nerve

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PMID28405011
PMCPMC5429812

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