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ArticleJournal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO2020

Effects of Tonic Muscle Activation on Amplitude-Modulated Cervical Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (AMcVEMPs) in Young Females: Preliminary Findings.

Christopher G Clinard, Andrew P Thorne, Erin G Piker

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Article in Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Christopher G ClinardDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, James Madison University, 235 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, MSC 4304, Harrisonburg, VA, 22807, USA. clinarcg@jmu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5524-051X
Andrew P ThorneDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, James Madison University, 235 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, MSC 4304, Harrisonburg, VA, 22807, USA.
Erin G PikerDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, James Madison University, 235 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, MSC 4304, Harrisonburg, VA, 22807, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5757-7244

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Abstract

Cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) are usually elicited by transient tonebursts, but when elicited by amplitude-modulated (AM) tones, they can provide new information about cVEMPs. Previous reports of cVEMPs elicited by AM tones, or AMcVEMPs, have not systematically examined the effects of tonic EMG activation on their response properties. Fourteen young, healthy female adults (ages 20-24) with clinically normal audiograms participated in this study. AMcVEMPs were elicited with bone-conducted 500 Hz tones amplitude modulated at a rate of 37 Hz and recorded for five different EMG targets ranging from 0 to 90 μV. Amplitude increased linearly as tonic EMG activation increased. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was minimal at 0 μV, but robust and with equivalent values from 30 to 90 μV; phase coherence and EMG-corrected amplitude had findings similar to SNR across EMG target levels. Interaural asymmetry ratios for SNR and phase coherence were substantially lower than those for raw or corrected amplitude. AMcVEMP amplitude scaled with tonic EMG activation similar to transient cVEMPs. Signal-to-noise ratio, phase coherence, and EMG-corrected amplitude plateaued across a range of EMG values, suggesting that these properties of the response reach their maximum values at relatively low levels of EMG activation and that higher levels of EMG activation are not necessary to record robust AMcVEMPs.

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Vestibular Evoked Myogenic PotentialsElectromyographyFemaleHumansSignal-To-Noise RatioYoung AdultcVEMPotolithsteady stateVEMP

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PMID32761291
PMCPMC7567772

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