Vestibular Perception: A Key Role in Motion Sickness and Visually Induced Motion Sickness
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 March 2023) | Viewed by 4020
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Interests: eye movements; movement detection; self-movement; parietal cortex; VOR; opto-kinetic; evolution
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Dear Colleagues,
Motion sickness is a sensory syndrome or disorder that has been widely known since ancient times with the advent of non-pedestrian transportation. It is recognized and diagnosed according to criteria recently stated by the Barany Society and can group together different entities: motion sickness, visually induced motion sickness and the resulting disembarkation sickness. The current pathophysiological mechanisms remain poorly understood, and it is clear that the networks underlying motion sickness remain a grey area to be explored with new means of investigation in neuroscience mainly the vestibular system and emotional related system/network. Although it is well known to the general public, there is a poor relationship between sensory neuroscience and clinical practice. At the interface between the sensory (visual, auditory, vestibular and somesthesic), emotional and hypothalamo-vegetative components, motion sickness indicates a functional disorder in the integration and/or abnormal interpretation of an “artificial” motion or a dynamic environment.
The digital and robotic technological development of autonomous cars, immersive simulators for professional training (civil and military), gaming, or the future metaverse network using virtual reality make motion sickness a physiological lock that should serve as a scientific, economic and industrial lever to develop large-scale research projects, both fundamental and applied, and effective countermeasures.
This Special Issue aims to review the physiopathology of motion sickness, the emotional aspects, the most recent advances in rehabilitation concepts, and perspectives on the next generation of means of transportation and of virtual reality and simulator systems.
Prof. Dr. Werner M. Graf
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vestibular system
- visual system
- virtual reality
- autonomous car
- space travel
- simulator
- industry
- human–machine interface
- cave system
- gaming
- vestibular stimulation
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