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ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2019

Semicircular canal biomechanics in health and disease.

R D Rabbitt

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Review in Journal of neurophysiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. From a conventional maneuver to a mechanical repositioning procedure for torsional-vertical down beating positioning nystagmus based on numerical simulations.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

R D RabbittDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah.
University of Utah · US

Funding

Biophysics and Biomechanics of the Semicircular CanalsR01DC006685 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI RABBITT, RICHARD D · 2005 to 2022
$6.8M
Focused Ultrasound Activation of Vestibular Otolith OrgansR21DC016443 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI RABBITT, RICHARD D · 2017 to 2017
$303k
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC006685NIDCD NIH HHS R21 DC016443
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The semicircular canals are responsible for sensing angular head motion in three-dimensional space and for providing neural inputs to the central nervous system (CNS) essential for agile mobility, stable vision, and autonomic control of the cardiovascular and other gravity-sensitive systems. Sensation relies on fluid mechanics within the labyrinth to selectively convert angular head acceleration into sensory hair bundle displacements in each of three inner ear sensory organs. Canal afferent neurons encode the direction and time course of head movements over a broad range of movement frequencies and amplitudes. Disorders altering canal mechanics result in pathological inputs to the CNS, often leading to debilitating symptoms. Vestibular disorders and conditions with mechanical substrates include benign paroxysmal positional nystagmus, direction-changing positional nystagmus, alcohol positional nystagmus, caloric nystagmus, Tullio phenomena, and others. Here, the mechanics of angular motion transduction and how it contributes to neural encoding by the semicircular canals is reviewed in both health and disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaHumansSemicircular CanalsVestibular Diseasesalcohol nystagmusbenign paroxysmal positional vertigocaloriccanal dehiscencecrista ampullarisinner earlabyrinthMénière’s diseasemotion sensationneural encoding of movementTullio phenomenavestibular

Identifiers

PMID30565972
PMCPMC6520623
OpenAlexW2903961386

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