THE AURICULAR REFLEX.

The vestibulo-auricular reflex.

The mammalian orienting response to sounds consists of a gaze shift that can be a combination of head and eye movements. In animals with mobile pinnae, the ears also move. During head movements, vision is stabilized by compensatory rotations of the eyeball within the head because of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR). While studying the gaze shifts made by cats to sounds, a previously uncharacte...

A New Method in Auricular Medicine for the Investigation of the Nogier Reflex

a Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, b Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and c TCM Research Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, Graz , Austria; d German Academy for Acupuncture, European Academy for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Munich , Germany; e Department of Information and Computing Science, School of Mathem...

Post - auricular muscle reflex in the Middle Latency Evoked Auditory Response Summary

Post-auricular muscle reflex in the Middle Latency Evoked Auditory Response.

UNLABELLED The Middle Latency Auditory Evoked Response may be influenced by the post-auricular muscle reflex which occurs at the same latency of this potential. AIM to evaluate the muscle reflex influence on the middle latency response, identifying the most appropriate place for response recording. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prospective study in which 40 normal hearing individuals, ranging in ag...

The Mechanism of Auricular Flutter and Auricular Fibrillation

A DISCUSSION of the mechaniism of auricular flutter or fibrillation requires first a precise definition of what is meant by those terms. They were coined originally to designate more or less characteristic clinical syndromes, but they are now applied loosely to a heterogeneous group of experimental results that may bear only a superficial resemblance to those syndromes. Thus, it is possible to ...