Nucl Med Mol Imaging.
2021 Apr;55(2):53-60. 10.1007/s13139-020-00675-2.
A Review of Neuroimaging Studies in Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD)
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- 1Department of Neurology, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- 3Department of Radiology, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
- KMID: 2515023
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-020-00675-2
Abstract
- Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) is a functional vestibular disease characterized by persistent dizziness, unsteadiness, and/or non-spinning vertigo, and is the most common vestibular syndrome in young adults. A stiffened postural control strategy, shift to reliance on visual over vestibular information, and hypervigilance to the environment have been suggested as possible pathophysiological mechanisms of PPPD. However, the exact mechanisms remain unclear. Recently, neuroimaging studies using magnetic resonance imaging and single photon emission computed tomography have provided pivotal insights into the pathophysiology of PPPD. The aim of this review was to evaluate and summarize the existing data on neuroimaging studies in PPPD. In summary, these studies fairly consistently reported decreased brain structure, function, and connectivity among the areas involved in multisensory vestibular processing and spatial cognition, and increased function and connectivity in the visual processing areas in patients with PPPD. The detected brain changes might reflect maladaptive and compensatory mechanisms including dysfunctional integration of multisensory vestibular information and visual dependence. Notably, various factors including personality traits (i.e., neuroticism), psychiatric comorbidities (i.e., anxiety and depression), and triggering factors (i.e., peripheral vestibular lesions) seem to modulate brain functional activity and connectivity patterns, possibly accounting for some differences across the results. Future studies should carefully control for these confounding effects in order to draw firm conclusions.
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