Chronic unilateral loss of otolith function revealed by the subjective visual vertical during off center yaw rotation

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 413-422

  Böhmer, Andreas ^a   Mast, Fred ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifuge; Otoliths; Utricle; Vestibular neurectomy; Vestibular psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LABYRINTHECTOMY; MENIERE DISEASE; NEURECTOMY; OTOLITH; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; UTRICLE; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ADULT; AXOTOMY; CENTRIFUGATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MENIERE'S DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 0032787550     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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