Publications by authors named "Q Arshad"
Background: Pharmacological treatment of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia is of limited benefit. The addition of non-pharmacological interventions is often essential for optimal symptom control. Music is a viable way to help patients communicate and improve their quality of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: In this study, we examined whether vestibular migraine, as a source of increased perceptual uncertainty due to the associated dizziness, interferes with adaptive learning.
Methods: The IOWA gambling task (IGT) was used to assess adaptive learning in both healthy controls and patients with migraine-related dizziness. Participants were presented with four decks of cards (A, B, C, and D) and requested to select a card over 100 trials.
Article Synopsis
- Subjective dizziness, or idiopathic dizziness (ID), is a common issue in older adults, caused by difficulties in postural control and an unclear understanding of its mechanisms.
- A study involving 30 patients with ID and 30 controls measured how they responded to platform movements, focusing on their body sway and perceptions of instability, while also considering psychological factors and brain health via MRIs.
- Results indicated that patients with ID felt more unstable than controls despite similar levels of actual body sway, and their cautious stepping responses were linked to fears of falling and brain health issues.
Purpose Of Review: To provide an update on comorbidity of vestibular symptoms and migraine.
Recent Findings: Multisensory processing and integration is a key concept for understanding mixed presentation of migraine and vestibular symptoms. Here, we discuss how vestibular migraine should be distinguished from a secondary migraine phenomenon in which migraine symptoms may coincide with or triggered by another vestibular disorder.