Dissociation between the perception of body verticality and the visual vertical in acute peripheral vestibular disorder in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 151-153

  Anastasopoulos, Dimitri ^a,c   Haslwanter, Thomas ^a   Bronstein, Adolfo ^b   Fetter, Michael ^a   Dichgans, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Peripheral vestibular lesions; Postural vertical; Spatial orientation; Vestibular system; Visual vertical

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN RECURRENT VERTIGO; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MENIERE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030767178     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00639-3     Document Type: Article

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