The bilateral central vestibular system: Its pathways, functions, and disorders

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1343, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-26

  Dieterich, Marianne ^a,b   Brandt, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Technische Universität München Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hemispherical dominance; Vertigo; Vestibular cortex; Vestibular disorders; Vestibular pathways; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HEAD POSITION; HEAD TILTING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INSULA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTION; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; OCULAR TILT REACTION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMIC ASTASIA; THALAMUS; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR CORTEX; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ANIMAL; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN CORTEX; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY FEEDBACK; VESTIBULE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; HUMANS; POSTURAL BALANCE; THALAMUS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH;

EID: 84928210790     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12585     Document Type: Article

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