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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2019

Nonhuman primate vestibuloocular reflex responses to prosthetic vestibular stimulation are robust to pulse timing errors caused by temporal discretization.

Peter J Boutros, Nicolas S Valentin, Kristin N Hageman, Chenkai Dai, Dale Roberts, Charles C Della Santina

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  1. Acceleration and Velocity Dissociate Temporal Phases of Postural Control in Rhesus Macaques.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  5. Vestibular prosthesis: from basic research to clinics.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023
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6 authors.

Peter J BoutrosDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.ORCID 0000-0002-4502-0561
Nicolas S ValentinDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.
Kristin N HagemanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.
Chenkai DaiDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.
Dale RobertsDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.
Charles C Della SantinaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine , Baltimore, Maryland.

Funding

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007057 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KANOLD, PATRICK O, KARCHIN, RACHEL · 1985 to 2023
$10.4M
Training Program in Hearing and BalanceT32DC000023 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CULLEN, KATHLEEN E · 1989 to 2025
$8.7M
Electrical Stimulation to Restore Three Dimensional Vestibular SensationR01DC009255 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DELLA SANTINA, CHARLES C · 2008 to 2018
$5.7M
Multichannel Vestibular Prosthesis Pilot Early Feasibility TrialR01DC013536 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DELLA SANTINA, CHARLES C · 2013 to 2017
$2.4M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009255NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC013536NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC000023NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007057
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electrical stimulation of vestibular afferent neurons to partially restore semicircular canal sensation of head rotation and the stabilizing reflexes that sensation supports has potential to effectively treat individuals disabled by bilateral vestibular hypofunction. Ideally, a vestibular implant system using this approach would be integrated with a cochlear implant, which would provide clinicians with a means to simultaneously treat loss of both vestibular and auditory sensation. Despite obvious similarities, merging these technologies poses several challenges, including stimulus pulse timing errors that arise when a system must implement a pulse frequency modulation-encoding scheme (as is used in vestibular implants to mimic normal vestibular nerve encoding of head movement) within fixed-rate continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) strategies used in cochlear implants. Pulse timing errors caused by temporal discretization inherent to CIS create stair step discontinuities of the vestibular implant's smooth mapping of head velocity to stimulus pulse frequency. In this study, we assayed electrically evoked vestibuloocular reflex responses in two rhesus macaques using both a smooth pulse frequency modulation map and a discretized map corrupted by temporal errors typical of those arising in a combined cochlear-vestibular implant. Responses were measured using three-dimensional scleral coil oculography for prosthetic electrical stimuli representing sinusoidal head velocity waveforms that varied over 50-400°/s and 0.1-5 Hz. Pulse timing errors produced negligible effects on responses across all canals in both animals, indicating that temporal discretization inherent to implementing a pulse frequency modulation-coding scheme within a cochlear implant's CIS fixed pulse timing framework need not sacrifice performance of the combined system's vestibular implant portion.

Indexed as

Reaction TimeReflex, Vestibulo-OcularAnimalsEye MovementsFemaleHead MovementsMacaca mulattaNeural ProsthesesNeurons, AfferentSensory AidsVestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentialscontinuous interleaved samplingpulse frequency modulationvestibular implant

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PMID30995152
PMCPMC6620701

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