Transformation of vestibular signals for the control of standing in humans

PA Forbes, BL Luu, HFM Van der Loos… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
During standing balance, vestibular signals encode head movement and are transformed
into coordinates that are relevant to maintaining upright posture of the whole body. This …

Stabilization demands of walking modulate the vestibular contributions to gait

RM Magnani, SM Bruijn, JH van Dieën, PA Forbes - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Stable walking relies critically on motor responses to signals of head motion provided by the
vestibular system, which are phase-dependent and modulated differently within each …

Frequency-specific effects of galvanic vestibular stimulation on response-time performance in Parkinson's disease

S Lee, PF Smith, WH Lee, MJ McKeown - Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) is being increasingly explored as a non-
invasive brain stimulation technique to treat symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD). To date …

Multidirectional human-in-the-loop balance robotic system

CZ Qiao, AM Nasrabadi, R Partovi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design and performance of a novel multidirectional balance robotic system.
This robot adds mediolateral standing balance control to the functionality of previous …

The effects of four hours of normobaric hypoxia on the vestibular control of balance

MIB Debenham, CB Bruce, CJ McNeil… - Experimental Brain …, 2024 - Springer
Whole-body vestibular-evoked balance responses decrease following~ 55 min of
normobaric hypoxia. It is unclear how longer durations of hypoxia affect the vestibular …

The effects of acute normobaric hypoxia on vestibular-evoked balance responses in humans

MIB Debenham, TDA Grantham… - Journal of …, 2023 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Hypoxia influences standing balance and vestibular function. OBJECTIVE:
The purpose here was to investigate the effect of hypoxia on the vestibular control of …

Vestibular attenuation to random-waveform galvanic vestibular stimulation during standing and treadmill walking

KB Hannan, MK Todd, NJ Pearson, PA Forbes… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to move and maintain posture is critically dependent on motion and orientation
information provided by the vestibular system. When this system delivers noisy or erred …

Quantifying nonlinear contributions to cortical responses evoked by continuous wrist manipulation

MP Vlaar, T Solis-Escalante, AN Vardy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cortical responses to continuous stimuli as recorded using either magneto-or
electroencephalography (EEG) have shown power at harmonics of the stimulated frequency …

Electrical vestibular stimuli evoke robust muscle activity in deep and superficial neck muscles in humans

PA Forbes, JB Fice, GP Siegmund, JS Blouin - Frontiers in neurology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neck muscle activity evoked by vestibular stimuli is a clinical measure for evaluating the
function of the vestibular apparatus. Cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials …

Comparison of postural responses to galvanic vestibular stimulation between pilots and the general populace

Y Yang, F Pu, X Lv, S Li, J Li, D Li… - BioMed Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) can be used to study the body's response to vestibular
stimuli. This study aimed to investigate whether postural responses to GVS were different …