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Multisensory contribution in visuospatial orientation: an interaction between neck and trunk proprioception
(2021)
Jason McCarthy
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CASTRO ABARCA, PATRICIA BERNARDITA
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Rachael Cottier
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Joseph Buttell
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Qadeer Arshad
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>A coherent perception of spatial orientation is key in maintaining postural control. To achieve this the brain must access sensory inputs encoding both the body and the head position and integrate them with incoming visual information. Here we isolated the contribution of proprioception to verticality perception and further investigated whether changing the body position without moving the head can modulate visual dependence—the extent to which an individual relies on visual cues for spatial orientation. Spatial orientation was measured in ten healthy individuals [6 female; 25–47 years (SD 7.8 years)] using a virtual reality based subjective visual vertical (SVV) task. Individuals aligned an arrow to their perceived gravitational vertical, initially against a static black background (10 trials), and then in other conditions with clockwise and counterclockwise background rotations (each 10 trials). In all conditions, subjects were seated first in the upright position, then with trunk tilted 20° to the right, followed by 20° to the left while the head was always aligned vertically. The SVV error was modulated by the trunk position, and it was greater when the trunk was tilted to the left compared to right or upright trunk positions (<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> < 0.001). Likewise, background rotation had an effect on SVV errors as these were greater with counterclockwise visual rotation compared to static background and clockwise roll motion (<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> < 0.001). Our results show that the interaction between neck and trunk proprioception can modulate how visual inputs affect spatial orientation.</jats:p>
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Head shaking does not alter vestibulo ocular reflex gain in vestibular migraine
(2022)
Priyani Patel
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CASTRO ABARCA, PATRICIA BERNARDITA
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Nehzat Koohi
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Qadeer Arshad
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Lucia Gargallo
<jats:p>Vestibular Migraine (VM) is the most common cause of non-positional episodic vestibular symptoms. Patients with VM commonly report increased motion sensitivity, suggesting that vestibular responses to head movement may identify changes specific to VM patients. Here we explore whether the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) gain alters in response to a clinical “headshake” maneuver in patients with VM. Thirty patients with VM in the inter-ictal phase, 16 patients with Benign Positional Paroxysmal Vertigo (BPPV) and 15 healthy controls were recruited. Patients responded to the question “Do you feel sick reading in the passenger seat of a car?” and completed a validated motion sickness questionnaire as a measure of motion sensitivity. Lateral canal vHIT testing was performed before and after headshaking; the change in VOR gain was calculated as the primary outcome. Baseline VOR gain was within normal limits across all participants. There was no significant change in VOR gain after headshaking in any group (<jats:italic>p</jats:italic> = 0.264). Patients were 4.3 times more likely to be in the VM group than in the BPPV group if they reported nausea when reading in the passenger seat of a car. We postulate that a headshake stimulus may be insufficient to disrupt cortical interactions and induce a change in VOR gain. Alternatively, changes in VOR gain may only be apparent in the acute phase of VM. Reading in the passenger seat of a car was considered uncomfortable in all VM patients suggesting that this specific question may be useful for the diagnosis of VM.</jats:p>
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Visuospatial orientation: Differential effects of head and body positions
(2022)
CASTRO ABARCA, PATRICIA BERNARDITA
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Shahvaiz Hussain
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Omer G. Mohamed
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Diego Kaski
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Qadeer Arshad
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Priming overconfidence in belief systems reveals negative return on postural control mechanisms
(2022)
CASTRO ABARCA, PATRICIA BERNARDITA
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Efstratia Papoutselou
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Sami Mahmoud
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Shahvaiz Hussain
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Constanza Fuentealba Bassaletti
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Dissociated motor learning and de-adaptation in patients with functional gait disorders
(2020)
Denise Lin
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CASTRO ABARCA, PATRICIA BERNARDITA
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Amy Edwards
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Akila Sekar
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Mark J Edwards
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Walking onto a stationary platform that had been previously experienced as moving generates a locomotor after-effect—the so-called ‘broken escalator’ phenomenon. The motor responses that occur during locomotor after-effects have been mapped theoretically using a hierarchal Bayesian model of brain function that takes into account current sensory information that is weighted according to prior contextually-relevant experiences; these in turn inform automatic motor responses. Here, we use the broken escalator phenomenon to explore motor learning in patients with functional gait disorders and probe whether abnormal postural mechanisms override ascending sensory information and conscious intention, leading to maladaptive and disabling gait abnormalities. Fourteen patients with functional gait disorders and 17 healthy control subjects walked onto a stationary sled (‘Before’ condition, five trials), then onto a moving sled (‘Moving’ condition, 10 trials) and then again onto the stationary sled (‘After’ condition, five trials). Subjects were warned of the change in conditions. Kinematic gait measures (trunk displacement, step timing, gait velocity), EMG responses, and subjective measures of state anxiety/instability were recorded per trial. Patients had slower gait velocities in the Before trials (P &lt; 0.05) but were able to increase this to accommodate the moving sled, with similar learning curves to control subjects (P = 0.87). Although trunk and gait velocity locomotor after-effects were present in both groups, there was a persistence of the locomotor after-effect only in patients (P &lt; 0.05). We observed an increase in gait velocity during After trials towards normal values in the patient group. Instability and state anxiety were greater in patients than controls (P &lt; 0.05) only during explicit phases (Before/After) of the task. Mean ‘final’ gait termination EMG activity (right gastrocnemius) was greater in the patient group than controls. Despite a dysfunctional locomotor system, patients show normal adaptive learning. The process of de-adaptation, however, is prolonged in patients indicating a tendency to perpetuate learned motor programmes. The trend to normalization of gait velocity following a period of implicit motor learning has implications for gait rehabilitation potential in patients with functional gait disorders and related disorders (e.g. fear of falling).</jats:p>
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Saccadic Direction Errors are Associated with Impulsive Compulsive Behaviours in Parkinson’s Disease Patients
(2019)
Pedro Barbosa
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Diego Kaski
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CASTRO ABARCA, PATRICIA BERNARDITA
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Andrew J. Lees
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Thomas T. Warner
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Body sway during postural perturbations is mediated by the degree of vestibulo-cortical dominance
(2019)
CASTRO ABARCA, PATRICIA BERNARDITA
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Diego Kaski
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Hussein Al-Fazly
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Deniz Ak
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Liam Oktay
28Scopus© Citations 3
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Subjective stability perception is related to postural anxiety in older subjects
(2019)
CASTRO ABARCA, PATRICIA BERNARDITA
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Diego Kaski
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Marco Schieppati
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Michael Furman
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Qadeer Arshad
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