The perception of body verticality (subjective postural vertical) in peripheral and central vestibular disorders

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1523-1534

  Bisdorff, A R ^a   Wolsley, C J ^a   Anastasopoulos, D ^a   Bronstein, A M ^a   Gresty, M A ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Postural vertical; Proprioception; Spatial orientation; Vestibular disorders; Visual vertical

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

EID: 0029856895     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.5.1523     Document Type: Article

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