OBJECTIVE To document our experiences using a new skull tapping induced Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (tap VEMPs) technique combined with standard Auditory Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (AC VEMPs) for advanced clinical assessment of cerebellopontine angle tumor (CPAT) patients. DESIGN AND STUDY SAMPLE Three patients were selected in order to highlight observations shown in a l...

Dizziness and imbalance are the most common complaints in older people, a growing public health concern. Although causes of dizziness people multifactorial, peripheral vestibular dysfunction is one frequent causes. Every factor associated with maintenance postural stability deteriorates aging. Age-related deterioration function has been demonstrated through quantitative measurements vide head i...

This is a review of recently published papers showing that bone-conducted vibration of the head causes linear acceleration stimulation of both inner ears and this linear acceleration is an effective way of selectively activating otolithic afferent neurons. This simple stimulus is used in a new test to evaluate clinically the function of the otoliths of the human inner ear. Single neuron studies...

Objective (Background): Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) are used to evaluate function of the vestibular system. Sound evoked triceps myogenic potentials (SETMPs) have not been studied extensively and differ anatomically from sternocleidomastoid (SCM) VEMPs because the efferent pathway for SETMPs traverses the spinal cord. The aim of this study was to examine whether SETMPs in peop...

OBJECTIVE To compare and characterise abnormalities for short latency vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) elicited by air- (AC) and two differing types of bone-conducted (BC) stimuli during vestibular neuritis (VN). METHODS AC (500Hz short tone bursts) and two BC stimuli (500Hz at the forehead and impulses at the mastoids) were used to evoke cervical and ocular potentials (cVEMPs an...

Objectives: This study was performed to evaluate the difference of cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP) stimulated by bone-conduction (BC) and air-conduction (AC) in patients with nonspecific dizziness.Methods: Twenty-eight dizzy (56 ears) 15 subjects (30 as normal control enrolled. Responses BC- AC-cVEMP were recorded sequentially both groups. cVEMP parameters including laten...

Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) in response to sound stimulation (500 Hz tone burst, 129 dB SPL) were studied in 1000 consecutive patients. VEMP from the ear with the larger amplitude were evaluated based on the assumption that the majority of the tested patients probably had normal vestibular function in that ear. Patients with known bilateral conductive hearing loss, with known b...