First trial postural reactions to unexpected balance disturbances: A comparison with the acoustic startle reaction

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2704-2712

  Oude Nijhuis, Lars B ^a,b   Allum, John H J ^b   Valls Solé, Josep ^c   Overeem, Sebastiaan ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STARTLE REFLEX; TILTING; VESTIBULE;

ACCELERATION; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 78049506921     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01080.2009     Document Type: Article

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