Ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMPs) require extraocular muscles but not facial or cochlear nerve activity

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 581-587

  Chihara, Yasuhiro ^a   Iwasaki, Shinichi ^a   Ushio, Munetaka ^a   Fujimoto, Chisato ^a   Kashio, Akinori ^a   Kondo, Kenji ^a   Ito, Ken ^a   Asakage, Takahiro ^a   Yamasoba, Tatsuya ^a   Kaga, Kimitaka ^b   Murofushi, Toshihisa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Facial palsy; Hearing loss; Otolith; oVEMP; Saccule; Utricule; VEMP; Vestibulo ocular reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; BONE CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VIBRATION;

EID: 62949248244     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.12.030     Document Type: Article

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