Lack of otolith involvement in balance responses evoked by mastoid electrical stimulation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 4441-4451

  Mian, Omar S ^a   Dakin, Christopher J ^b   Blouin, Jean Sébastien ^b   Fitzpatrick, Richard C ^c   Day, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASTOID; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MASTOID; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORIENTATION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78449240160     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.195222     Document Type: Article

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