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Vestibular Compensation Aspects of Time Course and De-Compensation

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Descriptions of labyrinthectomy symptoms date back as far as the 19th century (Flourens 1824; Goltz 1870; Cyon 1874; Bornhardt 1876; Spamer 1880; Bechterew 1883; Ewald 1892). By the turn of the century it was well established that most of the lesion-induced symptoms are gradually compensated (eliminated); comparative studies on various vertebrate species had been carried out, and Bechterew’s (1883) ingenious experiments involving subsequent lesions of both labyrinths had been a major breakthrough with regard to an understanding of compensatory mechanisms.

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  1. Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Göttingen, D-3400, Göttingen, Germany

    K.-P. Schaefer

  2. Dept. of Anatomy, University of Göttingen, D-3400, Göttingen, Germany

    D. L. Meyer

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Schaefer, KP., Meyer, D.L. (1988). Vestibular Compensation Aspects of Time Course and De-Compensation. In: Flohr, H. (eds) Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73849-4_28

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