Article
Orthopedics
Pamela M. Dunlap, Patrick J. Sparto, Gregory F. Marchetti, Joseph M. Furman, Jeffrey P. Staab, Anthony Delitto, Brooke N. Klatt, Susan L. Whitney
Summary: This study identified an association between fear-avoidance beliefs and disability in people with vestibular disorders at 3 months, while controlling for demographic and clinical characteristics. Fear-avoidance beliefs were predictive of activity limitations and participation restrictions at 3 months, suggesting the importance of assessing and addressing these beliefs in order to identify individuals at greater risk of disability after a vestibular disorder.
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Clinical Neurology
Elena Calzolari, Mariya Chepisheva, Rebecca M. Smith, Mohammad Mahmud, Peter J. Hellyer, Vassilios Tahtis, Qadeer Arshad, Amy Jolly, Mark Wilson, Heiko Rust, David J. Sharp, Barry M. Seemungal
Summary: Vestibular dysfunction is common in patients with TBI and requires a multi-level assessment due to the varied areas of damage. Patients with vestibular agnosia experience more severe imbalance, potentially linked to direct and indirect effects of white matter tract damage in the brain.
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Erasmo Galeno, Edoardo Pullano, Firas Mourad, Giovanni Galeoto, Francesco Frontani
Summary: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) affects around 740 cases per 100,000 people. Impairments related to mTBI include vertigo, dizziness, balance, gait disorders, double or blurry vision, and others. The efficacy of vestibular rehabilitation (VR) in reducing these symptoms in the acute or chronic phase and the optimal dosage is unclear.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Wei Liu, Cheng-Li Pan, Xi-chun Wang, Shuang Sun
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the clinical effect of vestibular rehabilitation on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo through searching relevant trials and conducting meta-analysis to summarize the latest evidence on the treatment effectiveness of VR for patients with BPPV.
Review
Pediatrics
Jingqiong Zheng, Lingyan Yu, Wenhui Hu, Yijian Yu
Summary: This study conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the therapeutic effect of endoscopic sinus surgery on pediatric patients with chronic sinusitis and nasal polyps. The results showed that endoscopic sinus surgery was effective in reducing postoperative recurrence and pain, and was considered a safe treatment option.
TRANSLATIONAL PEDIATRICS
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Regan G. Harrell, Michael C. Schubert, Sara Oxborough, Susan L. Whitney
Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, physical therapists in the United States shifted to providing telehealth for patients with vestibular disorders. A survey of physical therapists revealed that more than 80% agreed that telehealth was an effective platform for vestibular physical therapy. Common vestibular diagnoses, including benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular neuritis, were found to be comfortable to treat via telehealth. However, barriers such as testing balance without a caregiver present and providing written home exercise programs were reported by physical therapists.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Ahmet Koc, Elvan Cevizci Akkilic
Summary: This study assessed the effect of Vestibular Rehabilitation (VR) on patients with Vestibular Migraine (VM) and compared the results with patients with vestibular disorders without migraine. The findings showed that VR significantly improved vestibular symptoms and quality of life in VM patients.
BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Christos Nikitas, Evangelia Kontogianni, Sofia Papadopoulou, Michalis Tsoukatos, Dimitris Kikidis
Summary: The objective of this cross-sectional study was to identify correlations among functional gait, cognitive function, and perceived dizziness in people with peripheral vestibular disorders and explore variables that could be used as prognostic factors of functional gait. The results showed that age, perceived level of disability, and vigilance were predictive factors of functional gait variability and high risk of falling. The study concluded that cognitive impairments affect functional gait in people with peripheral vestibular disorders, highlighting the importance of integrating cognitive assessment into rehabilitation programs.
JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Brian Hack, Eduardo Macedo Penna, Tyler Talik, Rohan Chandrashekhar, Mindy Millard-Stafford
Summary: A systematic review and meta-analysis found that acute ingestion of Guarana has a small positive effect on human cognitive performance, improving response time but not accuracy. Whether the changes in cognitive performance are related to the caffeine content or other bioactive substances in Guarana remains unknown and requires further research.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Ning Ma, Handi Liu, Bing Liu, Li Zhang, Bei Li, Yang Yang, Wei Liu, Min Chen, Jianbo Shao, Xiao Zhang, Xin Ni, Jie Zhang
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and acceptance of Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR) adaptation training in children with recurrent vertigo. The results showed that VOR adaptation training can effectively improve vertigo symptoms and is more accepted by children compared to classic Cawthorne-Cooksey training.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
(2022)
Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yan Huang, Jiaxi Xu, Xuehao Zhang, Yuhe Liu, Enyan Yu
Summary: Alzheimer's disease or vestibular dysfunction can impair visual-spatial cognitive function. Recent studies have found that vestibular dysfunction is becoming more common in AD patients, and those with AD and vestibular impairment have more visual-spatial cognitive impairment. This study explores the relationship and interaction mechanism among the vestibular system, visual-spatial cognitive ability, and AD, aiming to provide new insights for screening, diagnosis, and rehabilitation intervention in AD patients. Routine vestibular function tests are crucial for understanding the vestibular function of AD patients and further research is needed to explore the effectiveness of these tests as early screening tools. Additionally, visual-spatial cognitive ability tests can help determine the spatial impairment subtype in AD patients, which is significant for preventing loss and falls in AD care and has great benefits in preventing and alleviating cognitive decline in AD patients.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Graham D. Cochrane, Jennifer B. Christy, Brian M. Sandroff, Robert W. Motl
Summary: The study found consistent correlations between vestibular and cognitive measures in people with MS, suggesting a potential link between central vestibular integration and cognition. Factor analysis showed a significant relationship between central vestibular integration and cognitive measures, indicating that vestibular rehabilitation techniques could potentially improve balance and cognition in people with MS.
NEUROREHABILITATION AND NEURAL REPAIR
(2021)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Alaa El-sayed Mandour, Amani Mohamed El-Gharib, Afaf Ahmad Emara, Trandil Hassan Elmahallawy
Summary: This study compared the effects of virtual reality rehabilitation and optokinetic stimulation rehabilitation on patients with visual vertigo, finding that both methods led to significant improvements in performance with no statistically significant difference between the two groups.
EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Berenice Hatat, Romain Boularand, Claire Bringuier, Nicolas Chanut, Christian Chabbert, Brahim Tighilet
Summary: This study tested the antivertigo potential of Acacetin and Fluoxetine in TTA vestibulo-injured rats, and results showed that these compounds did not significantly improve posture and locomotor balance deficits in these animals.
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Chen-ru Ding, Ying-qi Gao, Yu-juan Zhou, Jun Gu, Jing Wang
Summary: The short-term personalized vestibular rehabilitation program showed significant improvement in patients' anxiety, dizziness handicap, and balance confidence scores compared to medication group. The onset time of unilateral weakness also improved faster in the personalized vestibular rehabilitation group. Overall, the short-term program demonstrated great advantages in promoting vestibular compensation in patients with decompensated vestibular vertigo.
CURRENT MEDICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Ria Maxine Ruehl, Thomas Bauermann, Marianne Dieterich, Peter zu Eulenburg
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Adriana L. Ruiz-Rizzo, Christian Sorg, Natan Napiorkowski, Julia Neitzel, Aurore Menegaux, Hermann J. Mueller, Signe Vangkilde, Kathrin Finke
NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Aurore Menegaux, Natan Napiorkowski, Julia Neitzel, Adriana L. Ruiz-Rizzo, Anders Petersen, Hermann J. Mueller, Christian Sorg, Kathrin Finke
Article
Neurosciences
Marleen Haupt, Adriana L. Ruiz-Rizzo, Christian Sorg, Kathrin Finke
Article
Neurosciences
Adriana L. Ruiz-Rizzo, Florian Beissner, Kathrin Finke, Hermann J. Mueller, Claus Zimmer, Lorenzo Pasquini, Christian Sorg
Article
Neurosciences
Svenja Kuechenhoff, Christian Sorg, Sebastian C. Schneider, Oliver Kohl, Hermann J. Mueller, Natan Napiorkowski, Aurore Menegaux, Kathrin Finke, Adriana L. Ruiz-Rizzo
Summary: The study found a negative association between inter-FC of the right-frontoparietal network and visual networks with visual processing speed in certain frequency ranges. This suggests that direct connectivity between occipital and right frontoparietal regions supports visual processing speed.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Marleen Haupt, Steffen Joedecke, Annie Srowig, Natan Napiorkowski, Christoph Preul, Otto W. Witte, Kathrin Finke
Summary: The study found that patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) have higher visual processing speed with warning signals compared to without, but still lower than cognitively normal older adults. This suggests that while the processing system of aMCI patients shows general declines, they can still integrate auditory warning signals on a perceptual level.
NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
(2021)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Andreas Stallmach, Katrin Katzer, Bianca Besteher, Kathrin Finke, Benjamin Giszas, Yvonne Gremme, Rami Abou Hamdan, Katja Lehmann-Pohl, Maximilian Legen, Jan Christoph Lewejohann, Marlene Machnik, Majd Moshmosh Alsabbagh, Luisa Nardini, Christian Puta, Zoe Stallmach, Philipp A. Reuken
Summary: Post-COVID syndrome is increasingly recognized as a new clinical entity after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Patients living in rural areas may have difficulty accessing interdisciplinary tools for examination, which can be addressed with mobile outpatient clinics. In this study, physical fitness, fatigue, depression, cognitive dysfunction, and dyspnea were investigated in post-COVID syndrome patients in a mobile interdisciplinary clinic. The results showed that patients experienced significant impairment in physical and mental quality of life, with fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and dyspnea being the most frequently reported symptoms. The study also revealed high patient satisfaction with the mobile clinic.
Article
Infectious Diseases
Benjamin Giszas, Sabine Trommer, Nane Schuessler, Andrea Rodewald, Bianca Besteher, Jutta Bleidorn, Petra Dickmann, Kathrin Finke, Katrin Katzer, Katja Lehmann-Pohl, Christina Lemhoefer, Mathias W. Pletz, Christian Puta, Stefanie Quickert, Martin Walter, Andreas Stallmach, Philipp Alexander Reuken
Summary: This study investigated long-term symptoms and quality of life (QoL) after SARS-CoV-2 infection, finding that only about one-third of patients experienced a significant reduction in QoL, while the rest had a near-normal QoL. This suggests a differentiation between post-COVID disease and post-COVID condition.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Simon J. Schrenk, Stefan Brodoehl, Stefano Flor, Christiane Frahm, Christian Gaser, Rami Abou Hamdan, Marco Herbsleb, Christoph Kaleta, Fabian Kattlun, Hans-Josef Mueller, Christian Puta, Monique Radscheidt, Adriana L. Ruiz-Rizzo, Tannaz Saraei, Andre Scherag, Thomas Steidten, Otto W. Witte, Kathrin Finke
Summary: This study aims to analyze the effects of an eight-week standardized physical activity training program on cognitive, brain, and gut-barrier function in healthy older individuals. 100 participants aged 60 to 75 will undergo extensive baseline assessments before being randomized into either a physical activity group or a relaxation group. The entire intervention will be online-based, and post-intervention assessments will be conducted to measure the changes.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Erika C. S. Kuenstler, Peter Bublak, Kathrin Finke, Nicolas Koranyi, Marie Meinhard, Matthias Schwab, Sven Rupprecht
Summary: This study aims to assess whether a simple screening tool could uncover a specific pattern of cognitive changes in pID patients and whether these relate to objective aspect(s) of sleep quality. The results showed that patients had lower cognitive performance compared to good-sleepers, and this was correlated with both subjective and objective measures of sleep quality.
NATURE AND SCIENCE OF SLEEP
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Valeska Kozik, Philipp Reuken, Isabelle Utech, Judith Gramlich, Zoe Stallmach, Nele Demeyere, Florian Rakers, Matthias Schwab, Andreas Stallmach, Kathrin Finke
Summary: This study found that patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) exhibit long-term cognitive dysfunction, particularly in delayed memory, attention, and executive functioning. Memory deficits appear to be particularly relevant to patients' experience of subjective impairment.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Melanie D. Penning, Adriana L. Ruiz-Rizzo, Petra Redel, Hermann J. Mueller, Tiina Salminen, Tilo Strobach, Simone Behrens, Torsten Schubert, Christian Sorg, Kathrin Finke
Summary: This study showed that alertness training can enhance visual processing speed in older adults, and functional connectivity in the cingulo-opercular network serves as a neural marker for predicting individual training gains.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Leandra Bucher, Peter Bublak, Georg Kerkhoff, Thomas Geyer, Hermann Mueller, Kathrin Finke
Article
Psychology, Experimental
E. C. S. Kuenstler, K. Finke, A. Guenther, C. Klingner, O. Witte, P. Bublak
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2018)