The vestibular implant: Quo vadis?

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn AUG, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Van de Berg, Raymond ^a   Guinand, Nils ^b   Stokroos, Robert J ^a   Guyot, Jean Philippe ^b   Kingma, Herman ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Adaptation; Bilateral vestibular areflexia; Bilateral vestibulopathy; Neural prosthesis; Vestibular implant; Vestibular prosthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865713765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2011.00047     Document Type: Article

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