Sensory Reweighting in Frail Aged Adults: Are the balance deficiencies mainly compensated by visual or podal dependences?

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Date publication

janvier 2021

Journal

Neuroscience letters

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr MOUREY France

Tous les auteurs :
Brika M, Mourey F, Kubicki A

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33516799

Résumé

Postural control is based on the integration of different sensory inputs. The process of scaling the relative importance of these sensory cues (visual, vestibular and proprioceptive) depends on individuals and creates sensory preferences, leading to sensory dependences when one particular source is preponderant. In this context, the literature showed a frequent visual dependence (visual inputs weighting) in aged adults. However, the somaesthetic inputs can also be prioritised in a podal-dependent profile. In the frail aged adults, none study has shown the distribution of these two dependences.