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“Acute” Vestibular Compensation in the Goldfish: A Visual Substitution Process?

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Unilateral lesion of a labyrinth causes impairment of posture and locomotion. The subsequent recovery of function with time is usually termed vestibular compensation. The behavioral deficits manifested after hemilabyrinthectomy (HL) have been used to divide the course of compensation into different stages or phases. Most authors (see, e.g., Schaefer and Meyer 1974) distinguish between an acute and a chronic phase, whereby the acute phase begins directly after HL and lasts from a few hours to days depending on species. Another classification (McCabe and Ryu 1969), which is usually applied to mammals, includes an additional, immediately post-operative “critical” phase, which is not always considered to be part of the compensation process (Lacour et al. 1979).

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Burt, A., Flohr, H. (1988). “Acute” Vestibular Compensation in the Goldfish: A Visual Substitution Process?. In: Flohr, H. (eds) Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73849-4_35

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