The vestibular system helps maintain equilibrium and clear vision through reflexes, but it also contributes to spatial perception. In recent years, research in the vestibular field has expanded to higher-level processing involving the cortex. Vestibular contributions to spatial cognition have been difficult to study because the circuits involved are inherently multisensory. Computational method...

HYPOTHESIS The authors believe that anatomic differences render the superior division of the vestibular nerve more susceptible to injury during vestibular neuritis. The purpose of the study was to investigate anatomic differences between the superior vestibular nerve and singular nerve canals. BACKGROUND Previous studies of temporal bones have revealed vestibular nerve degeneration in patient...

Objectives: Apert syndrome affects the craniofacial structures resulting in craniosynostosis, craniofacial anomalies and syndactyly. Although many characteristic features are recognized, vestibular dysfunction is a little known feature that can often be present. This can cause a delay in the attainment of gross motor milestones and impair motor function. We aimed to examine this cohort to revie...

In everyday life, vestibular receptors are activated by both self-generated and externally applied head movements. Traditionally, it has been assumed that the vestibular system reliably encodes head-in-space motion throughout our daily activities and that subsequent processing by upstream cerebellar and cortical pathways is required to transform this information into the reference frames requir...

HYPOTHESIS Anatomic differences may render the superior division of the vestibular nerve more susceptible to injury during vestibular neuritis. BACKGROUND Neural degeneration has been identified in temporal bone studies of vestibular neuritis. Previous anatomic and physiologic studies of vestibular neuritis have demonstrated that the superior division of the vestibular nerve is preferentially...

The vestibular system provides the brain with sensory signals about three-dimensional head rotations and translations. These signals are important for postural and oculomotor control, as well as for spatial and bodily perception and cognition, and they are subtended by pathways running from the vestibular nuclei to the thalamus, cerebellum and the "vestibular cortex." The present review summari...

background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic neurological disease that affects brain and spinal cord. the infratentorial region contains the cerebellum and brainstem. vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (vemps) are short-latency myogenic responses. cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential (cvemp) is a manifestation of vestibulocolic reflex and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potent...