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Balance disorder

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Multisensory Origin of the Subjective First-Person Perspective: Visual, Tactile, and Vestibular Mechanisms

Olaf Blanke, Roberto Martuzzi, Christophe Lopez, Christian Pfeiffer, Valentin Marc Schmutz, Julio Duenas

In three experiments we investigated the effects of visuo-tactile and visuo-vestibular conflict about the direction of gravity on three aspects of bodily self-consciousness: self-identification, self-location, and the experienced direction of the first-per ...

Public Library of Science2013

Gyroscopic assistance for human balance

Falls are an urgent challenge in aging societies, and balance dysfunction is a major risk factor. Current robotic technology that assists human locomotion, however, aims at versatile functionality, particularly in the assistance of weak muscles. Such versa ...

2012

The human vestibular cortex revealed by coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

Olaf Blanke, Fred Mast, Christophe Lopez

The vestibular system contributes to the control of posture and eye movements and is also involved in various cognitive functions including spatial navigation and memory. These functions are subtended by projections to a vestibular cortex, whose exact loca ...

2012

Somatosensory control of balance during locomotion in decerebrated cat

Grégoire Courtine, Pavel Musienko

Postmammillary decerebrated cats can generate stepping on a moving treadmill belt when the brain stem or spinal cord is stimulated tonically and the hindquarters are supported both vertically and laterally. While adequate propulsion seems to be generated b ...

2012

Physical activity of moderately impaired elderly stroke patients during rehabilitation

Kamiar Aminian

In older adults, physical activity (PA) is promoted for public health preventive effort. It is also a major target in the rehabilitation process. Existing assessment tools in the clinical routine do not include any aspects of PA or participation and are of ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

The thalamocortical vestibular system in animals and humans

Olaf Blanke, Christophe Lopez

The vestibular system provides the brain with sensory signals about three-dimensional head rotations and translations. These signals are important for postural and oculomotor control, as well as for spatial and bodily perception and cognition, and they are ...

Elsevier2011

Neuroscience of Bodily Self-Consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Christian Pfeiffer, Estelle Palluel

We review recent research about human subjectivity and self-consciousness that has focused on cognitive psychology and neuroimaging of bodily self-consciousness. Multidisciplinary research on the fields of neurology, cognitive neuroscience and virtual real ...

2011

Continuous monitoring and quantification of multiple parameters of daily physical activity in ambulatory Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Bijan Najafi

Multiple motor function and strength assessment tools exist for the evaluation of neuromuscular diseases, but most do not directly assess functional ability in the patients' daily physical activity in their home environment. In this study our aim was to as ...

Elsevier2011

Biologically inspired kinematic synergies enable linear balance control of a humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert

Despite many efforts, balance control of humanoid robots in the presence of unforeseen external or internal forces has remained an unsolved problem. The difficulty of this problem is a consequence of the high dimensionality of the action space of a humanoi ...

2011

Le coût attentionnel associé aux fonctions exécutives impliquées dans le contrôle postural

Estelle Palluel, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot

The present paper tried to provide a review of the different works investigating the attentional cost of postural control. Within the context of a dual-task, the attentional demand associated with postural control depends on various factors such as (1) the ...

2011

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