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Vertigo
is normally definitively diagnosed by a doctor who examines your eye movements
in response to head movements.
But
authors of a new study in the
journal Human Brain Mapping were wondering what the brains of
vertigo sufferers looked like and whether the changes are reliable enough to be
able to serve as a diagnostic criteria for doctors to use.
This
may not be as crazy as it sounds.
Many
previous studies have concluded that vertigo is one of the most common, if not
the most common, complaint with which patients present at the intensive care
units of hospitals.
People
with severe vertigo often panic because they think they are having a stroke,
and duly get themselves to the nearest hospital.
Because
vertigo is quite common, this can easily overwhelm emergency room personnel,
but they cannot send these patients away, just in case they are indeed
suffering a stroke and require urgent treatment.
In
response to this problem, the authors of the new study wondered whether it
would be possible for a computer to distinguish vertigo from stroke cases based
on a resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI).
They
examined and compared rsfMRI data from 38 patients with persistent postural perceptual
dizziness and 38 people without this condition.
They
then tested the ability of a computer to predict whether people had vertigo or
not from imaging data given to it.
Without
getting into the incomprehensible medical terms that refer to the brain
regions, the scientists basically found that patients with vertigo displayed a
decline in connectivity between brain regions involved in multisensory
vestibular processing and spatial cognition, and an increase in connectivity
between regions that linked visual and emotional processing.
The
decreased connections in regions that deal with vestibular processing and
spatial cognition is unsurprising, as your vestibular system is the system that
helps you to balance and to orientate yourself in space so that you can move
correctly. These processes are severely compromised in people that have
vertigo.
Because
of the anxiety that results from the lack of balance and from our inability to
make sense of perceptual input during vertigo attacks, it is also not surprising
that our brains become overactive at perceptual and emotional processing.
The
researchers also found, to their delight, that their computer could predict
cases of vertigo from brain scan data with an accuracy level of 78.4%.
MRI
scans are unfortunately very expensive, so each hospital will have to calculate
whether it would be a saving or an extra expense to scan everyone automatically
that present signs of vertigo at their emergency room.
However,
this also shows that a big part of vertigo is caused by the brain. I have
helped people battle vertigo using simple exercises that increase the blood
flow up to your brain for years.
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