Loss of otolith function with age is associated with increased postural sway measures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 465, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-15

  Serrador, Jorge M ^a,b,c   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^a,b,d   Gopalakrishnan, Gosala S ^b   Black, F Owen ^e   Wood, Scott J ^f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d Hebrew Senior Life   (United States)

^e LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Balance; Falls; Otolith; Sex differences; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VISION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; POSTURAL BALANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349133916     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.08.057     Document Type: Article

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