Galvanic vestibular stimulation: a novel modulatory countermeasure for vestibular-associated movement disorders
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Galvanic vestibular stimulation: a novel modulatory countermeasure for vestibular-associated movement disorders Estimulação galvânica vestibular para corrigir transtornos neurológicos associados à disfunção vestibular
Motion sickness (MS) or kinetosis is a sensory-motor dys function caused by a mismatch between the visual ly perceived movement and its neural integration with the proprioceptive and vestibular system1,2. As a result of this mismatch balance, gait and locomotion anomalies appear, which worsens the disabling dysautonomia that such mismatch originates1,3-5. These neural disorders debut during lan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282x20130182