In a famous experiment, scientists discovered that patients without ... One of the tricks of your ear's vestibular system is keeping your eyes looking straight ahead as you nod "no." You can ...

Gentamicin, the drug that destroyed Janice Mackay's entire vestibular system, was discovered at the Schering pharmaceutical lab in Bloomfield, New Jersey, in 1963. Misdiagnosed and misunderstood ...

Led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato, the team discovered that stimulating ... is a mismatch between the visual signals and the vestibular system—the inner ear’s mechanism for balance and ...

The vestibular system is composed of the semicircular ... Recently, Crawford and Vilis discovered that torsion also depends on the tilt of the head with respect to gravity 7.

Unfortunately, patients who show defects of the vestibular system or cerebellum have difficulty controlling the direction of their gaze in response to changes in the environment and struggle to ...

The vestibular system in the brain is mainly responsible for the maintenance of balance and posture. The new work focused on subjects suffering from bilateral defects in the vestibular system (a ...