BACKGROUND It has been reported that up to 40% of patients over age 60 fail to generate a vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP; Su et al, 2004). When this occurs it is difficult to determine whether the absent VEMP represents evidence of bilateral impairment of the vestibulocollic reflex pathway or a normal age-related variant (i.e., idiopathic absence). PURPOSE The purpose of the prese...

UNLABELLED Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) have been used in complementary otoneurological assessment, but the use of VEMP in clinical settings is limited. VEMPs can be used to assess vestibular function, particularly of the saccule, the inferior vestibular nerve, and/or the vestibular nucleus. OBJECTIVE To verify the highest possible - and reliable - stimulation rate to obtain V...

The enhanced sound- and vibration-induced vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) and their lower threshold in patients with a thinning of the bony wall of the superior semicircular canal (superior canal dehiscence, SCD) have been interpreted as being due to the dehiscence allowing sound and vibration to activate, unusually, the receptors of the dehiscent semicircular canal. We report a p...

Diabetes mellitus type Ι is a metabolic disorder that affects multiple systems including the inner ear. Patients with diabetes mellitus commonly complain about dizziness, floating sensation, tinnitus and sweating. The aim of this study was to compare vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) between diabetic patients with or without neuropathy. Subjects included 14 patients with diabetes me...

The vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) has become a useful tool to assess the saccule and inferior vestibular nerve function. Vestibulopathies involving the saccule or inferior vestibular nerve typically result in VEMP responses that are diminished or absent on the involved side. Abnormally large VEMPs are rare. Large VEMPs have been associated with superior canal dehiscence, Ménière's...

Vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) are proposed as a reliable test to supplement the current vestibular test battery by providing diagnostic information about saccular and/or inferior vestibular nerve function. VEMPs are short-latency electromyograms (EMGs) evoked by high-level acoustic stimuli and recorded from surface electrodes over the tonically contracted sternocleidomastoid mus...

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...

background :preterm birth is a significant global health problem with serious short- and long-term consequences. this study examined the long term effects of preterm birth on vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (vemps) among preschool-aged children.   methods : thirty-one children with preterm and 20 children with term birth histories aged 5.5 to 6.5 years were studied. each child underwent v...

Objective New tests of otolithic function use air conducted sound (ACS) and bone vibration (BCV) as stimuli. These stimuli generate vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMPs) from tensed neck muscles or extraocular which differentiate utricular saccular in each labyrinth.Methods anatomical physiological results show why these are valid stimuli: that within macula there effectively two co-exi...

Cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) is a short-latency myogenic response recorded from the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) in response to saccular stimulation. The currently understood VEMP was first described by Colebatch and Halmagyi and Colebatch et al. [1, . Since then, VEMPs have become a standard clinical test of otolith function [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, . At present, they are of...