Previous studies revealed that vestibular cues are crucial for exploration in the absence of
visual cues. The working hypothesis of this study was, accordingly, that mice with vestibular …

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders, and are comorbid with
balance disorders in a significant proportion of these individuals. Presently, it is unclear …

Abstract Treatment of anxiety disorders by either pharmacological or behavioral means is
applied with the intention to directly target the limbic system or high brain centers that down …

Rodent open field behavior is highly organized and occurs spontaneously in novel
environments. This organization is disrupted in mice with vestibular pathology, suggesting …

The organization of rodent exploratory behavior appears to depend on self-movement cue
processing. As of yet, however, no studies have directly examined the vestibular system's …

Background Unilateral vestibular deafferentation syndrome (uVDS) holds a particular place
in the vestibular pathology domain. Due to its suddenness, the violence of its symptoms that …

Many mutant mouse strains display pathological behaviors, such as head tilts, head
bobbing, or circling and waltzing, strongly suggesting that their vestibular system is …

Despite frequent reports that patients with vestibular dysfunction exhibit an unusually high
incidence of anxiety disorders, few studies have investigated the emotional effects of …

Animal studies have shown that bilateral vestibular deafferentation (BVD) causes deficits in
spatial memory that may be related to electrophysiological and neurochemical changes in …

In order to clarify the significance of motion sickness in the vestibular system, we compared
the findings of experimental motion sickness between different kinds of subjects, some of …