Motion sickness: An evolutionary and genetic basis for the negative reinforcement model

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-49

  Knox, Glenn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH JACKSONVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene; Heredity; Motion sickness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTION SICKNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MOTION SICKNESS;

EID: 84890938005     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3519.2014     Document Type: Article

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