Vestibular neuromodulation in neurology and psychiatry

oleh: A. G. Naryshkin, I. V. Galanin, V. L. Kozlovskii, V. Yu. Popov

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Federal State Budget Scientific Institution National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology n.a. V.M. Bekhterev Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation 2018-11-01

Deskripsi

Te paper overviews the state of the art in one of the most rapidly developing areas of treatment of various drug-resistant diseases of the central nervous system. Different methods of vestibular neuromodulation and their comparative efcacy in the treatment of mental and neurological disorders are described. All those methods are based on neuroplasticity activation by means of application of physical, electrical or chemical stimuli on the peripheral part of the vestibular system, which leads to the restructuring of neural connections in the brainstem and in the midbrain.