The ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential to air-conducted sound; probable superior vestibular nerve origin

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 611-616

  Curthoys, Ian S ^a   Iwasaki, Shinichi ^b   Chihara, Yasuhiro ^b   Ushio, Munetaka ^b   McGarvie, Leigh A ^c   Burgess, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inferior oblique; Otolith; OVEMP; Saccular; Utricular; VEMP; Vestibular; Vestibulo ocular; VOR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURITIS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OCULAR VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR VESTIBULAR NEURITIS; SUPERIOR VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SACCADES; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751605029     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.07.018     Document Type: Article

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