Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
5. SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION xiii
6. CONTRIBUTORS xv
7. SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS xxvii
8. Basic Aspects
9. THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH AND OF SOME OF ITS CENTRAL PATHWAYS 3
10. MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SEMICIRCULAR CANAL AFFERENTS SENSITIVE TO HEAD TILT 13
11. SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF THE SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY OF TILT-SENSITIVE UNITS IN THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM OF THE DECEREBRATE CAT 27
12. FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF THE HORIZONTAL VESTIBULO-OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM IN THE CAT BRAIN STEM 35
13. PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF BRAIN STEM NEURONS RELATED TO VESTIBULAR AND SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENTS IN THE CAT 45
14. MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF VESTmULOOCULAR AND VESTIBULOCOLLIC REFLEXES 55
15. RESPONSES OF VESTIBULAR NUCLEAR NEURONS TO BIDIRECTIONAL OFF-VERTICAL AXIS ROTATIONS IN NORMAL AND HEMILABYRINTHECTOMIZED CATS 63
16. VESTIBULAR CONTROL OF THE CAT FORELIMB 73
17. PROPERTIES OF VESTIBULOSPINAL NEURONS RECEIVING INmBITORY INPUTS FROM THE LINGULA OF THE CEREBELLUM 81
18. Adaptation and Motion Sickness
19. NEUROCHEMICAL AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES ON VESTIBULAR COMPENSATION/ ADAPT A TION 89
20. QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SENSORIMOTOR PERFORMANCE AFFECTED BY MOTION SICKNESS INDUCING STIMULATION 99
21. SEROTONERGIC MECHANISMS IN EMESIS 107
22. IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL LOCALIZATION OF GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE (GAD) AND SUBSTANCE P IN NEURAL AREAS MEDIATING MOTION-INDUCED EMESIS. EFFECTS OF VAGAL STIMULATION ON GAD IMMUNOREACTIVITY 113
23. RECOVERY FROM UNILATERAL LABYRINTHECTOMY IN PRIMATE: EFFECTS OF VISUAL INPUTS AND CONSIDERA TIONS UPON EW ALDS SECOND LAW 125
24. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF GASTRIC DYSFUNCTION IN MOTION SICKNESS: THE EFFECT OF GASTRIC AND VESTIBULAR STIMULATION ON THE VAGAL AND SPLANCHNIC GASTRIC EFFERENTS 133
25. THE EFFECTS OF AREA POSTREMA LESIONS AND SELECTIVE VAGOTOMY ON MOTION-INDUCED CONDITIONED T ASTE AVERSION 143
26. Clinical Assessment
27. OBSERV A TIONS OF VESTIBULAR FUNCTIONS IN FOUR PATIENTS WITH INNER EAR ANOMALY 153
28. THE OTOLITH-OCULAR REFLEX IN MAN 165
29. Ventures in Space
30. VESTIBULAR FACTORS INFLUENCING THE BIOMEDICAL SUPPORT OF HUMANS IN SPACE 175
31. MIT/CANADIAN SPACELAB EXPERIMENTS ON VESTIBULAR ADAPTATION AND SPACE MOTION SICKNESS 183
32. SOMATOSENSORY -VESTIBULAR-SYMPATHETIC INTERACTIONS IN MAN UNDER 'VEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATED BY HEAD-OUT WATER IMMERSION 193
33. MICROGRA VITY VESTIBULAR INVESTIGATIONS: EXPERIMENTS ON VESTIBULAR AND SENSORY-MOTOR ADAPTATION TO SPACE FLIGHT 205
34. MACULAR BIOACCELEROMETERS ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 219
35. Appendix (Abstracts) 231
36. INDEX 243