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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Tomilovskaya, E.S.a; * | Berger, M.b | Gerstenbrand, F.b | Kozlovskaya, I.B.b
Affiliations: [a] RF SSC, Institute for Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia | [b] Innsbruck Institute of Space Neurology, Innsbruck, Austria
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Elena S. Tomilovskaya, 76A Khoroshevskoe Shosse 123007, Moscow, Russia. Tel.: +7 4991956837; Fax: +7 4991952253; E-mail: finegold@yandex.ru
Note: [1] This article was presented at the 8th Symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration April 8–10, 2011, Houston, TX, USA
Abstract: The aim of the study was to examine effects of long-duration exposure to weightlessness on characteristics of the vertical gaze fixation reaction (GFR). The subjects were to perform the target acquisition task on visual stimuli that appeared at a distance of 16 deg. up- and down from the primary position in a random order. Experiments were performed before launch, during flight and after landing. Before flight time of gaze fixation reaction did not exceed 650 ms. During space flight (SF) it extended up to 900–1000 ms and more. The velocities of head movement in space decreased, but the velocities of eye counterrotation decreased to a lesser degree. This difference resulted in sharp increase of vertical vestibular ocular reflex (VOR) gain (up to 4.3 values in one of the cosmonauts) during the 1st month of flight; further it decreased reaching the values of 0.5–0.7 on the 5th month of SF. After landing vertical VOR gain increased greatly again. These results in the vertical axis are in agreement with the data of Kozlovskaya et al., which showed in experiments with monkeys that horizontal VOR gain increased together with redundant inadequate responses of vestibular nucleus on vestibular stimulation and that in the course of adaptation to these conditions central nervous system inhibited vestibular input from the motor control system.
Keywords: Vertical gaze fixation reaction, vestibular-ocular reflex, eye-head coordination, weightlessness, space flight
DOI: 10.3233/VES-130470
Journal: Journal of Vestibular Research, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 3-12, 2013
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