Journal article
Changes in sensory reweighting of proprioceptive information during standing balance with age and disease
JH Pasma, D Engelhart, AB Maier, AC Schouten, H Van Der Kooij, CGM Meskers
Journal of Neurophysiology | AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC | Published : 2015
Abstract
With sensory reweighting, reliable sensory information is selected over unreliable information during balance by dynamically combining this information. We used system identification techniques to show the weight and the adaptive process of weight change of proprioceptive information during standing balance with age and specific diseases. Ten healthy young subjects (aged between 20 and 30 yr) and 44 elderly subjects (aged above 65 yr) encompassing 10 healthy elderly, 10 with cataract, 10 with polyneuropathy, and 14 with impaired balance, participated in the study. During stance, proprioceptive information of the ankles was disturbed by rotation of the support surface with specific frequency ..
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Awarded by Dutch Technology Foundation STW (BalRoom)
Funding Acknowledgements
This research (BalRoom; project no. 10737) is supported by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW, which is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and which is partly funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs.