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19645926

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-8-3
pubmed:abstractText
A previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in sighted individuals showed deactivations of multisensory vestibular cortex areas in the posterior insula and adjacent temporal sites during locomotor imagery. These vestibular deactivations were suggested to reflect the suppression of vestibular signals during locomotion in order to prevent potentially adverse interactions of these inputs with the optimized automated locomotion pattern. In this fMRI experiment, 10 totally blind subjects and 10 age- and gender-matched sighted controls imagined several locomotor tasks in a first-person perspective (kinesthetic imagery of standing, walking, and running). As opposed to their sighted controls, totally blind individuals activated multisensory vestibular areas in the posterior insula and superior temporal gyrus, with right-sided preponderance during locomotor imagery. These results plausibly suggest that blind subjects rely more on vestibular feedback for locomotor control than do sighted subjects. Thus, this fMRI study provides neuroimaging evidence for distinct cortical processing in the multisensory vestibular system in the blind during locomotor control.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1749-6632
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
1164
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
350-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Vestibular cortex activation during locomotor imagery in the blind.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. Angela.Deutschlaender@med.uni-muenchen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article