Chapter title |
Consequences and assessment of human vestibular failure: implications for postural control.
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Chapter number | 13 |
Book title |
Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture
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Published in |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2002
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4615-0713-0_13 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4613-5206-8, 978-1-4615-0713-0
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Authors |
Colebatch, James G, James G. Colebatch, Colebatch, James G. |
Abstract |
Labyrinthine afferents respond to both angular velocity (semicircular canals) and linear acceleration (otoliths), including gravity. Given their response to gravity, the otoliths are likely to have an important role in the postural functions of the vestibular apparatus. Unilateral vestibular ablation has dramatic effects on posture in many animals, but less so in primates. Nevertheless, bilateral vestibular lesions lead to disabling symptoms in man related to disturbed ocular and postural control and impaired perception of slopes and accelerations. While seimicircular canal function can be assessed through its effects on vestibular ocular reflexes, assessment of otolith function in man has traditionally been much more difficult. Recent definition of a short latency vestibulocollic reflex, activated by sound and appearing to arise from the saccule, shows promise as a new method of non-invasive assessment of otolith function. |
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