The present study was under taken to compare the beneficial effects of vestibular and auditory stimulation. A total of 39 healthy female participants age between 18-25 years were included in the present experimental study. Vestibular and auditory stimulation was administered by standardized methods in the literature. Following vestibular stimulation significant improvement in sleep duration and...

Abstract Egocentric representations allow us to describe the external world as experienced from an individual’s bodily location. We recently developed a novel method of quantifying weight given different body parts in egocentric judgments (the Misalignment Paradigm ). found that both head and torso contribute simple alter-egocentric spatial judgments. hypothesised artificial stimulation vestibu...

Concern that vestibular stimulation may induce seizures in seizure-prone children has been based on hearsay and unconfirmed clinical impressions of practicing therapists. To clarify this issue, we took electroencephalographic recordings of seizure-prone children before, during, and after specific vestibular stimulation. Ten children with seizure histories, 5, to 15 years of age, were exposed to...

The hundredth anniversary of Robert Bárány's Nobel Prize in Medicine offers the opportunity to highlight the importance of his discoveries on the physiology and pathophysiology of the vestibular organs. Bárány developed the method of caloric vestibular stimulation that revolutionized the investigation of the semicircular canals and that is still widely used today. Caloric vestibular stimulation...

Electrical stimulation of the vestibular sensory system during virtual environment simulations reduces the incidence of simulator adaptation syndrome (SAS). However, interactions between vestibular stimulation and complex visual scenery can increase oculomotor symptoms. This study examined an alternative technique to reduce symptoms of SAS using the application of galvanic cutaneous stimulation...

Risk-taking behaviour is an essential aspect of our interactions with the environment. Here we investigated whether vestibular inputs influence behavioural measurement risk-taking propensity. We have combined bipolar Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) a well-known and established task, namely Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). A sham stimulation was used to control for non-specific effects. ...

Chronic pain is often associated with reduced tactile acuity. A relationship exists between pain intensity, tactile acuity and cortical reorganisation. When pain resolves, tactile function improves and cortical organisation normalises. Tactile acuity can be improved in healthy controls when tactile stimulation is associated with a behavioural objective. We hypothesised that, in patients with ch...

The vestibular system encodes rotations and translations of the head in space. While much is known about cortical processing of the classical Aristotelian sensory modalities, such as vision and touch, knowledge of how vestibular stimulation is encoded in the human brain is lacking, probably due to the inherent technical difficulties of recording human brain function while providing natural vest...

Previously published studies report an improvement in hyperactivity following exposure to vestibular semicircular canal stimulation under eyes-open, lights-on conditions (conditions that provide visual feedback). To separate the effectiveness of vestibular stimulation from that of visual stimulation, 30 primary school children who met the criteria for having attention deficit disorder with hype...