Sex differences in tolerance to visually-induced motion sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 7 I, 2005, Pages 642-646

  Flanagan, Moira B ^a   May, James G ^a   Dobie, Thomas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion sickness; Sex differences; Vection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PROVOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VISION;

EID: 21644443400     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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