L24: Central vertigo assessment Flashcards
What is the image for the central vestibular system?
What are 3 higher vestibular functions?
- Internal representation of body schema
- Internal model of the surrounding space
- Multisensory motion perception, attention, spatial memory and navigation
What are 3 major vestibular functional groups?
What are 4 vestibular nuclei?
- Superior
- Inferior (descending)
- Medial
- Lateral
What are 2 features of vestibular nuclei?
- Medial & superior vestibular nuclei get input from semicircular canals
- Pathology with medial & superior nuclei - lose angular acceleration
- Inferior & lateral vestibular nuclei get input from otolith organs
- Pathology with lateral & inferior nuclei - lose linear acceleration
Medial & superior vestibular nuclei get input from ________.
semicircular canals
What if there is a pathology of medial and superior vestibular nuclei?
Pathology with medial & superior nuclei - lose angular acceleration
Inferior & lateral vestibular nuclei get input from _______.
otolith organs
What if there is a pathology of medial and superior vestibular nuclei?
Pathology with lateral & inferior nuclei - lose linear acceleration
Vestibular nuclei receive input from multiple brain areas and the 8th cranial nerve to ________.
refine movements by inhibitory and excitatory modulation
What are 4 features of “vestibular nuclei receive input from multiple brain areas and the 8th cranial nerve to refine movements by inhibitory and excitatory modulation”?
- Vestibular nuclei extend from the medulla to the rostral pons
- Branch off to the MLF bilaterally off the midline
- Mediolateral fasciculus: Transmission of info from vestibular nuclei
- MS destroys MLF - lose descending input control
- Process and relay information with neural outputs to control eye movements, postural movements and spatial orientation
- Can also influence ANS - control of BP when changing posture
- Orthostatic hypotension: Because otoliths do not fire > muscles do not contract > do not keep blood flowing > drop BP > faint
What is Integration of SCC & Otolith Organs?
During complex and combined movements, SCC and otolith inputs are summed (sub-additive).
What are 3 features of “omplex and combined movements, SCC and otolith inputs are summed (sub-additive)” for Integration of SCC & Otolith Organs?
- The weighting of SCC and otolith organ input will vary.
- At higher frequency, the weighting of rotational sensitivity decreases, but the weighting of translation sensitivity increases.
- Central vestibular pathologies over-rely on certain SCC or otolith organs - poor control of dynamic contributions of those organs.
What is translation?
Otolith organs
What is tilt?
Otolith organs + SCC
- Utricle + horizontal SCC
- Saccule + vertical SCC
By integrating otolith and SCC inputs together, you can discriminate between _____ and _____ (also integrated with visual and proprioception).
tilt; translation
What is the image summary?
What are 2 Vestibular & Extraocular Nuclei Pathways for the pathways of central vestibular systems?
- Mediate VOR
- Ascending pathways
- Medial longitudinal fasciculus
- Dieter’s tract from lateral vestibular nuclei (Dieter’s nucleus)
What are 2 vestibulospinal pathways?
- Medial vestibulospinal tract
- Lateral vestibulospinal tract
What are 2 medial vestibulospinal tracts/pathways?
- Arises from medial vestibular nucleus
- Innervates motor neurons for head & neck
What are 3 lateral vestibulospinal tracts/pathways?
- Direct efferents to vestibular nuclei, reticular formation and oculomotor nuclei
- Coordination of head-eye movements
- Indirect efferents go to thalamus, then to the motor cortex, red nucleus, reticular formation, vestibular nuclei and back to the cerebellum
What are 2 vestibulo-thalamo-cortical pathway?
- Visual vertical
- Lesion lower than decussation causes ipsilesional tilt ○
- Lesion higher than decussation causes contralesional tilt
- Haptic vertical
- Lesion in MCA area causes tilting sensation due to breakage of link to vestibular input
What are 4 features of thalamus as a pathway of central vestibular system?
- Thalamus is the gatekeeper to the cortex
- >10 regions attributed to vestibular processing within the thalamus
- Ventrolateral & posterolateral thalamus
- Thalamus encode vestibular input
- Thalamic lesions can present with tilts of subjective visual verticality (SVV) ipsi- or contralesionally
- Lesions do not produce OTR
What are 2 features of multi-sensory intergrations in thalamus as a pathway of central vestibular system?
- Integration of vestibular and somatosensory inputs depends on the posterolateral thalamus.
- MCA strokes cannot integrate them well
- PD demonstrated changes in the SVV after deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus.
What are 3 features of vestibular-basal ganglia pathways as a pathway of central vestibular system?
- Vestibular nucleus connects to striatum via thalamus.
- The striatum is likely the main input center for vestibular signals in the basal ganglia.
- This pathway contributes to motor control.
What are 3 features of cerebral cortex?
- Several distinct and separate areas of the temporoparietal cortex that receive vestibular and somatosensory afferents •
- Multiple network of cortical areas
- All vestibular cortex neurons respond to motion stimulation from other senses
- Treatment - need movements to change coding of somatosensory inputs
What are 2 major areas of cerebral cortex?
- Parietoinsular vestibular cortex (PIVC)
- Medial superior temporal area (MST)
What are 3 features of the vestibular cortex?
- Areas represented in both hemispheres
- Ipsilateral input from the stimulated end organ is the stronger input
- Both hemispheres but only one “global” vestibular perspective
- e.g. Right handed - right hemisphere is dominant to vestibular input
- One cannot perceive 2 different body positions/motions at the same time
- Callosal communication very important
What is the bilateral pathways of the vestibular system?
Right vestibular nuclei activated > right vestibular cortex activated, but also talk with left cortex.
- Yaw plane = blue
- Roll plane = pink
- Pitch plane = green
What are 3 lesions of the vestibular cortex?
- Altered perceptions of SVV
- Body lateropulsion (pushers)
- Rotational vertigo (rare)
Cortical infarcts damage critical areas in voluntary eye control
- Treatment: Translate motor control to ocular systems to improve balance
What are 2 features of parietal lesions?
- Latency on visually guided saccades in both hemifields
- Impaired smooth pursuit with textured background
What are 3 features of frontal lesions?
- Inaccuracy of saccades (hypometric)
- Latency of saccades
- Impaired smooth pursuit