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HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article

Front. Neurol.
Sec. Neuro-Otology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1533842
This article is part of the Research Topic The Vestibular System: A tribute to Professor Dr. Hans Straka View all 10 articles

Skull vibration induced nystagmus, velocity storage and self-stability

Provisionally accepted
Ian S Curthoys Ian S Curthoys 1*David Samuel Zee David Samuel Zee 2Georges Dumas Georges Dumas 3Christopher J Pastras Christopher J Pastras 4Julia Dlugaiczyk Julia Dlugaiczyk 5,6
  • 1 The University of Sydney, Darlington, New South Wales, Australia
  • 2 Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • 3 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, Rhône-Alpes, France
  • 4 Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • 5 University Hospital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 6 University of Zurich, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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    Abbreviations: a.u. arbitrary units BCV bone conducted vibration HSN head shaking nystagmus OKAN optokinetic afternystagmus OKN optokinetic nystagmus PRV perceived rotational velocity SCD semicircular canal dehiscence SPV slow phase eye velocity SVIN skull vibration induced nystagmus VsEP vestibular sensory evoked potential VSI velocity storage integratorWe dedicate this paper to the memory of Hans Straka. We pay tribute to the many insightful contributions he made to the understanding of vestibular function. His extraordinary breadth of knowledge, his scholarship, his drive, his collegiality, his skills in excruciatingly difficult electrophysiological experiments, his ideas -always asking the next question and then testing it -are a marvelous example of how to conduct vestibular research. His contributions and his approach to the study of this complex system is a continuing beacon to everyone in vestibular research and scientific endeavor generally.

    Keywords: Self-stability, utricular, vibration induced nystagmus, Velocity storage integrator, self-motion, semicircular canal, Tinnitus, vestibular

    Received: 25 Nov 2024; Accepted: 17 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Curthoys, Zee, Dumas, Pastras and Dlugaiczyk. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ian S Curthoys, The University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW 2006, New South Wales, Australia

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