Can Controlled Vestibular Stimulation Delay Brain Aging?

Abstract

Aging is believed to be a first-order risk factor for most neurodegenerative disorders. Brain changes do not occur to the same extent in all brain regions.7 Men and women may also differ with frontal and temporal lobes most affected in men compared with the hippocampus and parietal lobes in women. The neurotransmitters most often discussed with regard to ageing are dopamine, serotonin and acetyl-choline. Vestibular stimulation modulates the neuro-transmitters which are involved in brain aging and delay aging. Hence we recommend controlled vestibular stimulation to all. This in the need of time to identify the importance of vestibular system and to start translational research in this area.

Vestibular stimulation: A simple but effective intervention in diabetes care

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Beneficial effects of long term caloric vestibular stimulation on changes in brain neurotransmitter dopamine and locomotor activity in Parkinson’s Disease induced rats

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Psychoneuroimmuno modulation by controlled vestibular stimulation

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