• Neuroscience letters · Feb 2014

    Application of intermittent galvanic vestibular stimulation reveals age-related constraints in the multisensory reweighting of posture.

    • Diderik J A Eikema, Vassilia Hatzitaki, Dimitrios Tzovaras, and Charalambos Papaxanthis.
    • Motor Control and Learning Laboratory, Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
    • Neurosci. Lett. 2014 Feb 21;561:112-7.

    AbstractIn this study we examined the effects of intermittent short-duration Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) during a multisensory perturbation of posture in young and elderly adults. Twelve young (24.91±6.44 years) and eleven elderly (74.8±6.42 years) participants stood upright under two task conditions: (a) quiet standing and (b) standing while receiving pseudo-randomly presented bipolar 2 s GVS pulses. In both conditions, sensory reweighting was evoked by visual surround oscillations (20 cm, 0.3 Hz) and Achilles tendon vibration (3 mm, 80 Hz), concurrently delivered during the middle 60 s of standing. Intermittent GVS decreased the excessive postural sway induced by the concurrent visual and proprioceptive perturbation in young but not in elderly participants. It is suggested that GVS increases sensory reliance on the vestibular system while elderly adults are less able to exploit this stimulation in order to reduce the destabilizing effect of the multisensory perturbation on their posture.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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