Tianwen Chen, Jun Huang, Yue Yu, Xuehui Tang, Chunming Zhang, Youguo Xu, Alberto Arteaga, Jerome Allison, William Mustain, Matthew C Donald, Tracy Rappai, Michael Zhang, Wu Zhou, Hong Zhu
Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) have been used to assess otolith function in clinics worldwide. However, there are accumulating evidence suggesting that the clinically used sound stimuli activate not only the otolith afferents, but also the canal afferents, indicating canal contributions to the VEMPs. To better understand the neural mechanisms underlying the VEMPs and develop discriminative VEMP protocols, we further examined sound-evoked responses of the vestibular nucleus neurons and the abducens neurons, which have the interneurons and motoneurons of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) pathways...
2021: Frontiers in Neuroscience