Why do oVEMPs become larger when you look up? Explaining the effect of gaze elevation on the ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 785-791

  Rosengren, Sally M ^a,b   Colebatch, James G ^c   Straumann, Dominik ^a   Weber, Konrad P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gaze; Inferior oblique muscle; Otolith; OVEMP; Vestibulo ocular reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULAR VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VIBRATION;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; SKULL; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84875065411     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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