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.
PMID: 29402815 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Neuro-Signals - January 25, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Muhle P, Claus I, Marian T, Schröder JB, Wollbrink A, Pantev C, Warnecke T, Dziewas R, Suntrup-Krueger S Tags: Neurosignals Source Type: research