Spatial Orientation in Perceptual and Equilibrium Disorders.

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  • 空間識とめまい・平衡障害
  • クウカン シキ ト メマイ ヘイコウ ショウガイ

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From several studies of experimental motion sickness, I have concluded that the discomfort of motion sickness warns the brain of spatial disorientation, otherwise, the impairment of spatial orientation produces dangerous equilibrium ataxia. The possibility that spatial orientation plays an important role in the adjustment of daily actions, and that the locomotor system and the gaze control system may be equally under the control of the cognition-motor transforming system is discussed. In support of this hypothesis, locomotion disorders evoked by walking while wearing horizontally reversing goggles and the nystagmus induced by Coriolis' stimulation are discussed. Primitive motor programs of action may be immediately and uniformly adjusted by the kaleidoscopic changes of spatial orientation through the activity of the vestibular and cerebellar complex.

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