Head impulse test in unilateral vestibular loss: Vestibulo-ocular reflex and catch-up saccades

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 454-463

  Weber, K P ^a   Aw, S T ^a   Todd, M J ^a   McGarvie, L A ^a   Curthoys, I S ^b   Halmagyi, G M ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; VESTIBULAR TEST; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INNERVATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VESTIBULE;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; ROTATION; SACCADES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 40349085827     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000299117.48935.2e     Document Type: Article

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