The role of subcortical motor neurons in balance disorders- experimental study of the plasticity of the system

Authors

Dr. med. Katarzyna Pawlak-Osinska (Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Prof. Dr. med. Henryk Kazmierczak (Bydgoszcz, Poland)

Proceedings

XXVIII Congress of the NES - Alghero - Italy

Topics

Neurootology
Propioceptive
Diseases
Neurootology
Equilibrium
Diseases
Neurootology
Neurology
Diseases
Neurootology
Equilibrium
Neurootology
Neurology
Neurootology
Neurootology
Propioceptive

Keywords

Laberint reflex, Neuronal systems, Plasticity, Subcortical motor neurons.

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Abstract

Several data indicate that compensation and habituation processes are the main phenomenons of the plasticity of central nervous system (CNS), especially the plasticity of vestibular system. The detailed role of particular parts of CNS in adapatation after lessions has not been clear yet (2).
Evertbody knows that in birds and reptiles cerebral motor cortex in represented in debris form or is completely absent. In kinetic behaviour, subcortical neurons play the function of cortex in these animals. On the other hand it was described that removing striatum and/or pallidum in birds does not create heavy motor disturbances, such as in lower animals (1).
The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of subcortical motor neurons disorders on balance system and to compare this lesion effect with partial cerebellar lesions consequences.