Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its origin
Myogenic potentials generated by acoustic stimulation of the vestibular system have been reported since 1964. This examination became better known as cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) and gained increasing clinical application since the nineties. Since its discovery, the saccul...
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| description | Myogenic potentials generated by acoustic stimulation of the vestibular system have been reported since 1964. This examination became better known as cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) and gained increasing clinical application since the nineties. Since its discovery, the saccule has been conceived as the most likely vestibular end-organ driving these myogenic potentials of the neck. As findings from both animal and human studies for a long time uniformly provided evidence supporting this theory, cVEMP assessment has become synonymous with evaluation of saccular and inferior vestibular nerve function. This review of the basic evidence supporting this conclusion, questions if cVEMP may be considered as being predominantly or even exclusively driven by the activation of any single vestibular end-organ. We conclude that the results of this review show that contributions from the crista ampullaris of all three ipsilateral semicircular canals, as well as the ipsilateral utricle cannot be ruled out in clinically conducted cVEMP assessments. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7a60e65a4c74436d9c0beef96f814f7b2025-01-22T05:19:49ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neurology1664-22952025-01-011510.3389/fneur.2024.15020931502093Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its originJonas Bruun Kjærsgaard0Jonas Bruun Kjærsgaard1Dan Dupont Hougaard2Dan Dupont Hougaard3Herman Kingma4Herman Kingma5Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery and Audiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, DenmarkDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, DenmarkDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery and Audiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, DenmarkDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, DenmarkDepartment of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery and Audiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, DenmarkDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, DenmarkMyogenic potentials generated by acoustic stimulation of the vestibular system have been reported since 1964. This examination became better known as cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMPs) and gained increasing clinical application since the nineties. Since its discovery, the saccule has been conceived as the most likely vestibular end-organ driving these myogenic potentials of the neck. As findings from both animal and human studies for a long time uniformly provided evidence supporting this theory, cVEMP assessment has become synonymous with evaluation of saccular and inferior vestibular nerve function. This review of the basic evidence supporting this conclusion, questions if cVEMP may be considered as being predominantly or even exclusively driven by the activation of any single vestibular end-organ. We conclude that the results of this review show that contributions from the crista ampullaris of all three ipsilateral semicircular canals, as well as the ipsilateral utricle cannot be ruled out in clinically conducted cVEMP assessments.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2024.1502093/fullcVEMPvestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP)vestibulocollic reflexsacculusutriculusspecificity |
| spellingShingle | Jonas Bruun Kjærsgaard Jonas Bruun Kjærsgaard Dan Dupont Hougaard Dan Dupont Hougaard Herman Kingma Herman Kingma Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its origin Frontiers in Neurology cVEMP vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) vestibulocollic reflex sacculus utriculus specificity |
| title | Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its origin |
| title_full | Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its origin |
| title_fullStr | Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its origin |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its origin |
| title_short | Thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials: a critical review on its origin |
| title_sort | thirty years with cervical vestibular myogenic potentials a critical review on its origin |
| topic | cVEMP vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) vestibulocollic reflex sacculus utriculus specificity |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2024.1502093/full |
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