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Neural pathway of vestibular/balance system
The vestibular system, in vertebrates, is a sensory system that creates the sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement with balance. Together with the cochlea, a part of the auditory system, it constitutes the labyrinth of the inner ear in most mammals.
As movements consist of rotations and translations, the vestibular system comprises two components: the semicircular canals, which indicate rotational movements; and the otoliths, which indicate linear accelerations. The vestibular system sends signals primarily to the neural structures that control eye movement; these provide the anatomical basis of the vestibulo-ocular reflex, which is required for clear vision. Signals are also sent to the muscles that keep an animal upright and in general control posture; these provide the anatomical means required to enable an animal to maintain its desired position in space.
The brain uses information from the vestibular system in the head and from proprioception throughout the body to enable the animal to understand its body's dynamics and kinematics (including its position and acceleration) from moment to moment. How these two perceptive sources are integrated to provide the underlying structure of the sensorium is unknown.
The vestibularsystem, in vertebrates, is a sensory system that creates the sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement...
Vestibular rehabilitation (VR), also known as vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT), is a specialized form of physical therapy used to treat vestibular...
maze of fluid-filled channels in the inner ear. Vestibular neuritis is inflammation of the vestibular nerve (the nerve in the inner ear that sends messages...
impulses which are passed on to the brain via the auditory nerve. The vestibularsystem, dedicated to balance. The inner ear is found in all vertebrates,...
or aspirin. Vertigo typically indicates a problem in a part of the vestibularsystem. Other causes of dizziness include presyncope, disequilibrium, and...
instrument readings or the misjudging of altitude over water. The vestibularsystem, which is responsible for the sense of balance in humans, consists...
(interoception) sensory systems. Human external senses are based on the sensory organs of the eyes, ears, skin, nose, mouth and the vestibularsystem. Internal sensation...
The vestibular nerve is one of the two branches of the vestibulocochlear nerve (the cochlear nerve being the other). In humans the vestibular nerve transmits...
utricule and superior vestibular nerve and the cVemp measures the saccule and the inferior vestibular nerve. The vestibularsystem helps a person maintain:...
sense for orientation. The auditory system, vestibularsystem (within the inner ear), and proprioceptive system (sensory receptors located in the skin...
parts of the central nervous system, including the nigrostriatal pathway, the basal ganglia, the cerebellum, the vestibular nuclei, and different sensory...
the result of a number of sensory systems working together; the eyes (visual system), the inner ears (vestibularsystem), and the body's sense of where...
The vestibular nuclei (VN) are the cranial nuclei for the vestibular nerve located in the brainstem. In Terminologia Anatomica, they are grouped in both...
taken out of its normal upright position. It is initiated by the vestibularsystem, which detects that the body is not erect and causes the head to move...
Balance is the result of several body systems working together: the visual system (eyes), vestibularsystem (ears) and proprioception (the body's sense...
periods have been identified for the development of hearing and the vestibularsystem.[1] Examples of strong critical periods include monocular deprivation...
The vestibulocochlear nerve or auditory vestibular nerve, also known as the eighth cranial nerve, cranial nerve VIII, or simply CN VIII, is a cranial nerve...
mismatch between the visual, vestibular, and somatosensory systems. Motion studies in which the subjects lacked vestibularsystems did not experience symptoms...
impulses travel along the vestibular portion of the eighth cranial nerve to the vestibular nuclei in the brainstem. The vestibularsystem is important in maintaining...
A vestibular schwannoma (VS), also called acoustic neuroma, is a benign tumor that develops on the vestibulocochlear nerve that passes from the inner ear...
Hair cells are the sensory receptors of both the auditory system and the vestibularsystem in the ears of all vertebrates, and in the lateral line organ...
Vestibular cortex is the portion of the cerebrum which responds to input from the vestibularsystem. The location is not well defined, but some research...
the real world. The vestibularsystem is the balance and equilibrium system of the body that includes the left and right vestibular organs of the "inner...
oculomotor system is affected, no longer holding images steady on the retina. A change in the magnitude of the vestibulo-ocular reflex due to vestibular disease...
contains the vestibularsystem, which is also known as the organ of equilibrium. About the size of a pencil eraser, the vestibularsystem contains two...
arriving in the brain from the inner ear, which forms the base of the vestibularsystem, the sensory apparatus that deals with movement and balance, and which...
structures compose the vestibular part of the cerebellum. At its base, the flocculus receives input from the inner ear's vestibularsystem and regulates balance...
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