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Visuospatial Dysfunction in Patients With the Right Vestibular Neuritis / 대한평형의학회지
Journal of the Korean Balance Society ; : 19-23, 2019.
Article in Korean | WPRIM | ID: wpr-761288
ABSTRACT
Acute vestibular neuritis (VN) is characterized by acute/subacute vertigo with spontaneous nystagmus and unilateral loss of semicircular canal function. Vestibular system in human is represented in the brain bilaterally with functional asymmetries of the right hemispheric dominance in the right handers. Spatial working memory entails the ability to keep spatial information active in working memory over a short period of time which is also known as the right hemispheric dominance. Three patients (patient 1, 32-year-old female; patient 2, 18-year-old male; patient 3, 63-year-old male) suffered from acute onset of severe vertigo, nausea and vomiting. Patients 1 and 2's examination revealed VN on the right side showing spontaneous left beating nystagmus and impaired vestibular ocular reflex on the right side in video head-impulse and caloric tests. Patient 3's finding was fit for VN on the left side. We also evaluated visuospatial memory function with the block design test in these 3 VN patients which discovered lower scores in patients 1 and 2 and the average level in patient 3 compare to those of healthy controls. Follow-up block design test after resolved symptoms showed within normal range in both patients. Our cases suggest that the patients with unilateral peripheral vestibulopathy may have an asymmetrical effect on the higher vestibular cognitive function. The right VN can be associated with transient visuospatial memory dysfunction. These findings add the evidence of significant right hemispheric dominance for vestibular and visuospatial structures in the right-handed subjects, and of predominant dysfunction in the hemisphere ipsilateral to the peripheral lesion side.
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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Reference Values / Reflex / Vomiting / Brain / Caloric Tests / Semicircular Canals / Vertigo / Follow-Up Studies / Cognition / Vestibular Neuronitis Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study Limits: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male Language: Korean Journal: Journal of the Korean Balance Society Year: 2019 Type: Article

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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Reference Values / Reflex / Vomiting / Brain / Caloric Tests / Semicircular Canals / Vertigo / Follow-Up Studies / Cognition / Vestibular Neuronitis Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study Limits: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male Language: Korean Journal: Journal of the Korean Balance Society Year: 2019 Type: Article