Sensory intervention, one aspect in the occupational therapy treatment of the high-risk, preterm infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), is discussed. Normal deviations in the healthy preterm baby's development at the equivalent age of the full-term baby are identified as a basis for intervention. Environmental factors affecting the preterm infant's interactions and therapeutic needs...

Bilateral loss of vestibular inputs affects far fewer patients than unilateral inner ear damage, and thus has been understudied. In both animal subjects and human patients, bilateral vestibular hypofunction (BVH) produces a variety of clinical problems, including impaired balance control, inability to maintain stable blood pressure during postural changes, difficulty in visual targeting of imag...

[Purpose] This study investigated whether inhibition of unilateral vestibular function by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) facilitates center-of-gravity (CoG) displacement. [Participants and Methods] Ten healthy individuals participated in this study. During a CoG displacement task, the subjects received 3 minutes cathodal tDCS applied to right mastoid (tDCS condition) or first 30...

This work compared the effect of unilateral (right and left) and bilateral vestibular stimulation in a right-brain-damaged patient with neglect. Neglect was improved following left caloric vestibular stimulation, and worsened following right vestibular stimulation. On the other hand, no modification of neglect was observed after bilateral vestibular stimulation. These results support the idea t...

Recent studies have revealed that noxious visceral inputs travel in the dorsal column pathway, and interactions between colorectal noxious and tactile inputs occur in the ventrobasal thalamus. This investigation was to test whether the somatovisceral interactions also take place in the dorsal column nuclei (DCN). Forty-five single DCN neurons of anesthetized rats responsive to colorectal disten...

the effect of tactile-kinesthetic stimulation on reflex state of low birth weight neonates hospitalized in nicu askary kachoosangy r[1]*, aliabai f[2],taghizadeh gh[3] received: 18 jun, 2012 accepted: 18aug, 2012 abstractbackground & aims: low birth weight (lbw) infants need complementary interventions like massage because they are very fragile. tactile kinesthetic stimulation is a kind of mass...

ABSTRACT Introduction: The sensorial integration exercise has the goal of stimulating and restoring disordered perception system, improving proprioception, tactile, audiovisual, vestibular sensory stimulation, helping children to improve their impairments. period between three six is decisive for developing basic motor skills necessary future sports skills. Objective: Studies impacts integrated...

Many studies have investigated the evidence for tactile and visual interactive responses to activation of various brain regions. However, few studies have reported on the effects of visuo-tactile multisensory integration on the amount of brain activation on the somatosensory cortical regions. The aim of this study was to examine whether coincidental information obtained by tactile stimulation c...

Eye movements were recorded in the pigmented rat during vestibular, optokinetic and combined visual-vestibular stimulation. The dominant time constant in pigmented rats, tested during angular vestibular stimulation in darkness, is about two times longer than the cupular time constant. The gain and the duration of nystagmus, achieved by angular vestibular stimulation, can be enhanced by visual i...