Parallel ascending vestibular pathways: Anatomical localization and functional specialization

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1164, Issue , 2009, Pages 51-59

  Zwergal, Andreas ^a   Strupp, Michael ^a   Brandt, Thomas ^a   Büttner Ennever, Jean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ascending tract of Deiters; Brachium conjuctivum; Crossing ventral tegmental tract; Human; Ipsilateral vestibulo thalamic tract; Medial longitudinal fasciculus; Monkey; Subjective visual vertical; Y group

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HEAD MOVEMENT; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; OTOLITH; PONS; PRETECTUM; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; THALAMUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 66149124382     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04461.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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