introduction :  an ankle sprain is the most common injuries which due to damage to the proprioceptive receptors and decrease stability, the risk of re- injury is high. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of star excursion balance training on ankle sprain rehabilitation. materials and methods: sixteen non-professional athletes with history of unilateral ankle sprain which reporte...

It is now well established that vestibular information plays an important role in spatial memory processes. Although vestibular lesions induce anxiety in humans, this finding remains controversial in rodents. However, it is possible that anxiety-related behavior is associated with spatial memory impairments after vestibular lesions. We aimed to evaluate anxiety-like behavior and the effect of a...

The vestibular system is important for the development of normal movement reactions, motion tolerance, and motor control for postural alignment, balance, and vision. A vestibular system that is damaged by disease or injury in childhood can have a major impact on a child's development. In addition, the emergence of vestibular lesions may also lead to cognitive deficits, including attention defic...

introduction: the aim of this case report was to investigate the relationship between sleep disorders and audio vestibular symptoms.   case report: a case of undiagnosed sleep disorder, presenting as a temporary auditory processing difficulty, is presented. the disorder was initially treated as sudden deafness with dizziness. a 23-year-old male patient complained of acute hearing disturbance de...

Sixty patients were selected for cochlear implantation and 50 of them received an intracochlear implant (Nucleus). Vestibular function was evaluated before and after surgery using a caloric test and a velocity step test. Sixteen patients had normal or residual vestibular function before surgery, 11 bilateral and 5 unilateral; in 3 of the latter patients, the ear with vestibular areflexia was el...

Balance requires the integration of proprioceptive, visual, and vestibular sensory inputs. Contributions from the vestibular system are increasingly important when other sensory signals are lacking or erroneous [1]. Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS), the application of a small electrical current across the mastoid processes, has been used to apply a stimulus to the vestibular system indepen...

The vestibular system contributes to the generation of conjugate eye movements, spatial orientation, and postural control. The functional connections of the vestibular end-organs and of the descending vestibulospinal pathways and their importance to postural control were reviewed in the previous paper by Keshner and Cohen (pp. 320-330). This paper reviews the ascending vestibular pathways, the ...

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...

Spatial learning and navigation depend on neural representations of location and direction within the environment. These representations, encoded by place cells and head direction (HD) cells, respectively, are dominantly controlled by visual cues, but require input from the vestibular system. Vestibular signals play an important role in forming spatial representations in both visual and non-vis...

Vestibular symptoms are persistent and problematic sequelae of blast exposure. Several lines of evidence suggest that these symptoms often stem from injury to the central nervous system. Current methods of assessing the vestibular system have described vestibular deficits that follow traumatic brain injury and differentiate blunt and blast trauma but have not examined the full range of vestibul...