Introducing a Virtual Lesion Model of Dysphagia Resulting from Pharyngeal Sensory Impairment

Conclusions: Withdrawal of sensory afferent information by topical anesthesia leads to reduced response to pneumatic pharyngeal stimulation in a distributed cortical sensorimotor network in healthy subjects. The proposed paradigm may serve to investigate the effect of neuromodulatory treatments specifically on pharyngeal sensory impairment as relevant cause of neurogenic dysphagia.Neurosignals 2018;26:1 –10
Source: Neurosignals - Category: Neurology Source Type: research