Ataxia telangiectasia: A "disease model" to understand the cerebellar control of vestibular reflexes

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3034-3041

  Shaikh, Aasef G ^a   Marti, Sarah ^b   Tarnutzer, Alexander A ^b   Palla, Antonella ^b   Crawford, Thomas O ^c   Straumann, Dominik ^b   Carey, John P ^d   Nguyen, Kimanh D ^d   Zee, David S ^c,d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Neurology ^*  (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ataxia telangiectasia mutated gene; Eye movement; Oscillopsia; Spatial orientation; Vestibulocollic reflex; Vestibuloocular reflex

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CERVICAL VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; OSCILLOPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR EVOKED POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULOCOLLIC REFLEX; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CEREBELLUM; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959372346     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00721.2010     Document Type: Article

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