Vestibular Implants in Humans: Solved Problems and Remaining Challenges

Guyot, J. P.; Perez-Fornos, A.; Guinand, N.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-34546-3_217

J. P. Guyot⁵,
A. Perez-Fornos⁵ &
N. Guinand⁵

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Humans can adapt to a chronic electric stimulation of the vestibular nerve. Controlled smooth eye movements up to 3.5° peak to peak can be generated by modulation of the amplitude or the rate of the stimulation. This is in the range of compensatory eye movements registered during daily activities in healthy subjects. Functional benefit will be assessed by measuring the dynamic visual acuity in patients with a bilateral loss.

This work is funded by the 7th framework programme, theme 3, Information and Communication Technologies; CLONS (225929) (CLOsed-loop Neural prostheses for vestibular disorderS) approved by EC on (17/10/2008).

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Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland Rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil 2, 1211, Geneva 14, CH, Switzerland
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Bioengineering Group, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
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Diego Torricelli
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Guyot, J.P., Perez-Fornos, A., Guinand, N. (2013). Vestibular Implants in Humans: Solved Problems and Remaining Challenges. In: Pons, J., Torricelli, D., Pajaro, M. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34546-3_217

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