Horizontal linear vestibule-ocular reflex testing in patients with peripheral vestibular disorders

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 871, Issue , 1999, Pages 232-247

  Lempert, Thomas ^a,b   Gresty, Michael A ^a   Bronstein, Adolfo M ^a  

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

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE TRANSECTION; OTOLITH; VELOCITY; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VISUAL ACUITY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; DENERVATION; EYE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REFLEX; VESTIBULE; VISION; VISION TEST;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; DARKNESS; DENERVATION; EYE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VISION; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033612069     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09188.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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