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Vibro-motor Reprocessing Therapy towards Managing Motion Sickness Reduction: Evidence from EEG

Molefi, Emmanuel, Palaniappan, Ramaswamy, McLoughlin, Ian Vince (2022) Vibro-motor Reprocessing Therapy towards Managing Motion Sickness Reduction: Evidence from EEG. In: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). . IEEE (doi:10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871336) (KAR id:94015)

Abstract

This study examines the neural activities of participants undergoing vibro-motor reprocessing therapy (VRT) while experiencing motion sickness. We evaluated the efficacy of vibro-motor reprocessing therapy, a novel therapeutic technique based on eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), in reducing motion sickness. Based on visually induced motion sickness in two sets of performed sessions, eight participants were exposed to VRT stimulation in a VRT/non-VRT setting. Simultaneously, brain activity changes were recorded using electroencephalography (EEG) at baseline and during stimulus exposure, and comparisons made across the VRT/non-VRT conditions. A significant reduction in the alpha (8-12 Hz) spectral power was observed in the frontal and occipital locations, consistent across all participants. Furthermore, significant reductions were also found in the frontal and occipital delta (0.5-4 Hz) and theta (4-8 Hz) spectral power frequency bands between non-VRT and VRT conditions (p < 0.05). Our results offer novel insights for a potential nonpharmacological treatment and attenuation of motion sickness. Furthermore, symptoms can be observed, and alleviated, in real-time using the reported techniques.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Proceeding)
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871336
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R858 Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics. Medical information technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Palaniappan Ramaswamy
Date Deposited: 12 Apr 2022 10:38 UTC
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2023 09:18 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/94015 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Molefi, Emmanuel.

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Palaniappan, Ramaswamy.

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McLoughlin, Ian Vince.

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