Dizziness/Vertigo: Technical Papers

The links below are more technical in nature than anything else on this site. They will be of interest to healthcare providers who are studying the vestibular system and to those patients who have an interest in exploring the more technical nature of their disorders.

Notes on the Vestibular Systems
by David P. Crockett, M.A., Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Various technical notes, clinical aspects, etc.
PubMed Query
Article abstracts about Meniere's and other inner-ear disorders.
The vestibulo-ocular reflex: computation in the cerebellar flocculus
by Christopher Burdess
"This paper describes the vestibulo-ocular reflex in some detail, both from the mathematical and neurophysiological perspectives, and presents a computational model of how this topographic organisation can come to be learned from the information presented to the structure."
The vestibular system, a tool to study neurotoxicants in the central nervous system
Magnus Niklasson. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
University Hospital, S-581 85 Linköping, Sweden
An abstract. Discussion of the vestibular and opto-ocular motor (VOOM) system; the dynamics of the vestibular ocular reflex (VOR) and the optokinetic reflex (OKR) as well as the interaction of the two reflexes; and the effects of drugs related to GABA_b-transmission.

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