Suppression of vestibular nystagmus by forced convergence in normal human subjects

Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 52-57

  Shirado, Osamu ^a,b   Gizzi, Martin ^a,c   Harper, Harry ^c   Wang, Weijia ^c  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NEW JERSEY NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR NYSTAGMUS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ADULT; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; ROTATION;

EID: 0031035378     PISSN: 01913913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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