EMG responses in the soleus muscles evoked by unipolar galvanic vestibular stimulation

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 476-483

  Watson, S R D ^a   Colebatch, J G ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Galvanic stimulation; Plasticity; Unipolar; Vestibular nerve; Vestibular neurectomy; Vestibulospinal reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; ROTATION; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 0031463452     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(97)00044-1     Document Type: Article

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