Compensatory increase of the cervico-ocular reflex with age in healthy humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 553, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 311-317

  Kelders, W P A ^a   Kleinrensink, G J ^a   van der Geest, J N ^a   Feenstra, L ^a   de Zeeuw, C I ^a   Frens, M A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA REFLEX; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; AGE; CERVICAL STIMULATION; CERVICOOCULAR REFLEX; DARKNESS; EYE MOVEMENT; HEAD; NECK; OCULAR STABILIZATION REFLEX; REFLEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; TRUNK; VERY ELDERLY; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLES; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX; ROTATION; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0344033801     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.049338     Document Type: Article

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