Low-intensity vestibular noise stimulation improves postural symptoms in progressive supranuclear palsy
Journal of Neurology(2024)
摘要
Postural imbalance and falls are an early disabling symptom in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) of multifactorial origin that may involve abnormal vestibulospinal reflexes. Low-intensity noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) is a non-invasive treatment to normalize deficient vestibular function and attenuate imbalance in Parkinson’s disease. The presumed therapeutic mode of nGVS is stochastic resonance (SR), a mechanism by which weak sensory noise stimulation can enhance sensory information processing. To examine potential treatment effects of nGVS on postural instability in 16 patients with PSP with a clinically probable and [18F]PI-2620 tau-PET-positive PSP. Effects of nGVS of varying intensity (0–0.7 mA) on body sway were examined, while patients were standing with eyes closed on a posturographic force plate. We assumed a bell-shaped response curve with maximal sway reductions at intermediate nGVS intensities to be indicative of SR. An established SR-curve model was fitted on individual patient outcomes and three experienced human raters had to judge whether responses to nGVS were consistent with the exhibition of SR. We found nGVS-induced reductions of body sway compatible with SR in 9 patients (56
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Progressive supranuclear palsy,Atypical parkinsonism,Galvanic vestibular stimulation,Stochastic resonance,Balance,Body sway
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