Journal Club – BPPV after Brain Injury (April 2025)

Join Co-Founder Dr. Helena Esmonde PT, DPT, NCS and special guest Dr. Barry Seemungal, MB, BCh, FRCP as they discuss the topic of BPPV After Brain Injury and answer viewer-submitted questions.

Dr. Seemungal is trained as a neurologist in London and completed a PhD in vestibular neurosciences at the Medical Research Council Human Movement & Balance Unit (UCL).  He has expertise in neurology, vertigo, balance, eye movement disorders, post-traumatic imbalance and dizziness, migraine, vestibular migraine, Meniere’s disease, vestibular neuritis, and stroke.

Two key pieces of research from Dr Seemungal include a structural brain imaging study showing that the vestibular cerebellar grey matter may independently modulate vestibular perceptual and VOR

responses and that vertigo sensation is mediated by an extensive white matter cerebral cortical network; and a human lesion study (Kaski et al., Brain In Press; see US National Library of Medicine for review) which defines the cerebral cortical correlates of vestibular spatial orientation (https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/consultant-directory/barry-seemungal).