SYMPTOMATOLOGY UNDER STORM CONDITIONS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC IN CONTROL SUBJECTS AND IN PERSONS WITH BILATERAL LABYRINTHINE DEFECTS

Abstract

Ten labyrinthine defective (L-D) and twenty normal subjects were exposed to extremely severe weather conditions during a sea voyage. The effects of such a stress were complicated by a feeling of fear in all of the normal and in some of the L-D subjects. None of the latter manifested typical symptoms of motion sickness whereas all of the normal subjects did. The fact that the L-D subjects did not become sick suggests that, even in instances where motion sickness symptoms appear to be triggered by anxiety, the vestibular organs plan an essential etiological role.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 25, 1965
Accession Number
AD0620374

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  • Ashton Graybiel
  • Frederick D. Beckwith
  • Robert C. Mcdonough
  • Robert S. Kennedy

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  • Biomedical

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  • Aircrafts
  • Angular Acceleration
  • Aviation Medicine
  • Biological Sciences
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Constrictions
  • Digestive System Processes
  • Environment
  • Military Medicine
  • Motion Sickness
  • Naval Aviation
  • Nova Scotia
  • Research Aircraft
  • Rotation
  • Ships
  • Vascular Diseases

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  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Oceanography.