Ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials induced by air-conducted sound in patients with acute brainstem lesions

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 770-778

  Oh, Sun Young ^a   Kim, Ji Soo ^b   Lee, Jong Min ^c   Shin, Byoung Soo ^a   Hwang, Seung Bae ^a,d   Kwak, Ki Chang ^c   Kim, Chanmi ^c   Jeong, Seul Ki ^a   Kim, Tae Woo ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Air conducted sound (ACS); Brainstem; Crossed ventral tegmental tract (CVTT); Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO); Medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF); Ocular VEMPs (oVEMPs); Oculomotor nucleus; Otolith; Vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULAR VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND ANALYSIS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CONDUCTION; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PONS; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 84875067500     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.09.026     Document Type: Article

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