Jean-Sébastien Blouin
Human Kinetics
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The Journal of Physiology | 2007
Christopher J. Dakin; Gregory Martin Lee Son; J. Timothy Inglis; Jean-Sébastien Blouin
Stochastic vestibular stimulation (SVS) can be used to study the postural responses to unpredictable vestibular perturbations. The present study seeks to determine if stochastic vestibular stimulation elicits lower limb muscular responses and to estimate the frequency characteristics of these vestibulo‐motor responses in humans. Fourteen healthy subjects were exposed to unpredictable galvanic currents applied on their mastoid processes while quietly standing (±3 mA, 0–50 Hz). The current amplitude and stimulation configuration as well as the subjects head position relative to their feet were manipulated in order to determine that: (1) the muscle responses evoked by stochastic currents are dependent on the amplitude of the current, (2) the muscle responses evoked by stochastic currents are specific to the percutaneous stimulation of vestibular afferents and (3) the lower limb muscle responses exhibit polarity changes with different head positions as previously described for square‐wave galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) pulses. Our results revealed significant coherence (between 0 and 20 Hz) and cumulant density functions (peak responses at 65 and 103 ms) between SVS and the lower limbs postural muscle activity. The polarity of the cumulant density functions corresponded to that of the reflexes elicited by square‐wave GVS pulses. The SVS–muscle activity coherence and time cumulant functions were modulated by current amplitude, electrode position and head orientation with respect to the subjects feet. These findings strongly support the vestibular origin of the lower limb muscles evoked by SVS. In addition, specific frequency bandwidths in the stochastic vestibular signal contributed to the early (12–20 Hz) and late components (2–10 Hz) of the SVS‐evoked muscular responses. These frequency‐dependent SVS‐evoked muscle responses support the view that the biphasic muscle response is conveyed by two distinct physiological processes.
The Journal of Physiology | 2006
Jean-Sébastien Blouin; J. Timothy Inglis; Gunter P. Siegmund
The human startle response produces muscle contractions throughout the body but the most brisk and synchronized contractions appear in the neck muscles. This response, which is greatest with the first exposure to a startling stimulus, could produce excessive and inappropriately directed muscle contractions that could explain the higher incidence of whiplash injuries in people who are unprepared for the collision. This study seeks neurophysiological evidence of startle responses in the neck muscles of 120 healthy subjects exposed to between 1 and 16 rear‐end impacts or forward perturbations of different speeds. Startle responses were quantified by the synchronous electromyographic (EMG) activity between 10 and 20 Hz in bilaterally homologous sternocleidomastoid, scalene and cervical paraspinal neck muscles. Coherence analyses of EMGs from the left and right muscles were used to estimate synchrony for: (i) the first unexpected trial, (ii) subsequent habituated trials, and (iii) the superposition of habituated trials and a loud acoustic stimulus (40 ms, 124 dB sound). The peak in coherent EMG activity between contralateral muscle pairs in the 10–20 Hz bandwidth was related to startle. Synchrony in this bandwidth was observed between the left and right muscles during the first impact or whiplash‐like perturbation. This synchrony decreased significantly in the habituated trials, but reappeared when the loud acoustic stimulus was introduced. Its presence in the first trial indicates that startle is part of the neuromuscular response to an unexpected rear‐end impact. This startle component of the neuromuscular response could play a role in the aetiology of whiplash injuries.
Archive | 2015
Takahiro Futami; N. Ando; Junichi Yagi; Yongqing Xiang; Sergei B. Yakushin; Mikhail Kunin; Theodore Raphan; Bernard Cohen; Alfred C. Schouten; Jean-Sébastien Blouin; Patrick A. Forbes; Christopher J. Dakin; Alistair N. Vardy; Riender Happee; Gunter P. Siegmund; Mayu Takahashi; Yuriko Sugiuchi; Yoshikazu Shinoda
Archive | 2015
Jean-Sébastien Blouin; Martin E. Héroux; Christopher J. Dakin; Billy L. Luu; John Timothy Inglis; Brian H. Dalton
Archive | 2015
S. J. Garland; Alfred C. Schouten; Jean-Sébastien Blouin; Patrick A. Forbes; Christopher J. Dakin; Alistair N. Vardy; Martin E. Héroux; Billy L. Luu; John Timothy Inglis; C. L. Pollock; Tanya D. Ivanova; Michael A. Hunt
Archive | 2015
Gregory Martin Lee Son; Jean-Sébastien Blouin; John Timothy Inglis; Christopher J. Dakin; Billy L. Luu; Kees van den Doel
Archive | 2015
Junichi Ushiyama; Yuji Takahashi; Junichi Ushiba; Alfred C. Schouten; Jean-Sébastien Blouin; Patrick A. Forbes; Christopher J. Dakin; Alistair N. Vardy; Maria Willerslev-Olsen; Tue Hvass Petersen; Simon F. Farmer; Jens Bo Nielsen
Archive | 2015
Michael J. Todd; G. Michael Halmagyi; Chisato Fujimoto; Tatsuya Yamasoba; Shinichi Iwasaki; Yoshiharu Yamamoto; Fumiharu Togo; Makoto Kinoshita; Jean-Sébastien Blouin; Patrick A. Forbes; Gunter P. Siegmund; Riender Happee; Alfred C. Schouten; Matthew C. Kiernan; Michael H Barnett; Chenyu Wang; David Paling; Luke Chen; Sean N. Hatton; Jim Lagopoulos; Swee T. Aw
Archive | 2015
Jakob Lund Dideriksen; D. Farina; Deborah Falla; Alfred C. Schouten; Jean-Sébastien Blouin; Patrick A. Forbes; Christopher J. Dakin; Alistair N. Vardy
Archive | 2014
Brian H. Dalton; Billy L. Luu; Jean-Sébastien Blouin