The functional effectiveness of neck muscle reflexes for head-righting in response to sudden fall

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 266-272

  Ito, Yatsuji ^a,d   Corna, Stefano ^b,d   Von Brevern, Michael ^c,d   Bronstein, Adolfo ^d   Gresty, Michael ^d  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervico collic reflex; Head righting; Human; Labyrinthine defective; Vestibular collic reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE REFLEX; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; VELOCITY; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; EAR, INNER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABYRINTH DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NECK MUSCLES; REFLEX;

EID: 0030693625     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050221     Document Type: Article

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