Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMPs) have recently become a popular component of the audiovestibular test battery of many neurology, otolaryngology, and audiology laboratories and clinics. Traditional VEMPs, resulting from the vestibulo-collic reflex, are evoked by intense acoustic stimuli presented via air or bone conduction and recorded from the activated ipsilateral neck musculature...

INTRODUCTION The natural aging process may result in morphological changes in the vestibular system and in the afferent neural pathway, including loss of hair cells, decreased numbers of vestibular nerve cells, and loss of neurons in the vestibular nucleus. Thus, with advancing age, there should be a decrease in amplitudes and an increase in latencies of the vestibular evoked myogenic potential...

OBJECTIVE To determine the amplitude changes of vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) recorded simultaneously from the neck (cVEMPs) and eyes (oVEMPs) in response to 500 Hz, 2 ms air-conducted sound pips over a 30 dB range. METHODS Fifteen healthy volunteers (mean age 29, range 18-57 years old) and one patient with unilateral superior canal dehiscence (SCD) were studied. The stimulus ...