Affiliation:
1. The Eye and Ear Research Unit, Neurology Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
2. The Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Abstract
To determine the relative contributions of ampullofugal (AF) and ampullopetal (AP) stimulation of the horizontal semicircular canal (HSCC) to the horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex (HVOR), 12 patients were studied 1 year after total unilateral vestibular deafferentation (UVD). Compensatory eye movement responses to impulses of horizontal head rotation were studied using magnetic search coils. The head impulses were rapid (up to 3000 deg/sec/sec) passive, unpredictable, step displacements of horizontal angular head position with respect to the trunk. Tbe results from these 12 patients were compared with results from 30 normal subjects. An HVOR deficit was found to each side. The HVOR in response to head impulses toward the deafferented side, a response generated exclusively by ampullofugal stimulation of the single functioning HSCC, was severely deficient with an average gain of 0.25; the HVOR in response to head impulses toward the intact side, a response generated exclusively by ampullopetal stimulation of the single functioning HSCC, was mildly but significantly deficient compared with normal subjects. These results show that rapid, unpredictable head movements, unlike slow, predictable head movements, do demonstrate the AP-AF HVOR asymmetry, which could be expected from consideration of the behavior of single vestibular afferent neurons, an asymmetry that is expressed by Ewald’s 2nd Law.
Subject
Neurology (clinical),Sensory Systems,Otorhinolaryngology,General Neuroscience
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