Reduced input from foot sole skin through cooling differentially modulates the short latency and medium latency vestibular reflex responses to galvanic vestibular stimulation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-71

  Muise, Stephanie B ^a   Lam, Chris K ^a   Bent, Leah R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cutaneous; Electromyography; Galvanic vestibular stimulation; Hypothermia; Reflex; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; WATER IMMERSION;

ADOLESCENT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; FOOT; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; REACTION TIME; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859165360     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3002-2     Document Type: Article

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