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Insular Strokes Cause No Vestibular Deficits
Author(s) -
Bernhard Baier,
Julian Conrad,
Peter zu Eulenburg,
Christoph Best,
Wibke MüllerForell,
Frank Birklein,
Marianne Dieterich
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.113.001816
Subject(s) - medicine , vestibular system , stroke (engine) , audiology , mechanical engineering , engineering
In previous imaging studies, the posterior insular cortex (IC) was identified as an essential part for vestibular otolith perception and considered as a core region of a human vestibular cortical network. However, it is still unknown whether lesions exclusively restricted to the posterior IC suffice to provoke signs of vestibular otolith dysfunction. Thus, present data aimed to test whether patients with lesions restricted to the IC showed vestibular otolith dysfunction.

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