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... as vision or hearing, but receive far less recognition. Equilibrium (balance) is responsible for maintaining our stable posture and vision as ... the finely controlled mechanisms that underlie balance in both the inner ear and the brain. The inner ear houses thousands of sensitive hair ...
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... exciting research undertaken in the Hunter that’s exploring how the balance system works – through anatomical, physiological and molecular ... a complex series of messages between the balance organs of the inner ear, our eyes, and our joints and sends those signals to various parts ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... include the structure and function of the peripheral and central balance (vestibular) system. His recent studies have focused on vestibular hair cells of the inner ear and their complex relationship with closely associated nerve fibres. ...
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... Rebecca’s main research focuses on the often-overlooked sense of balance. We take for granted how exquisitely well our sense of balance ... Rebecca has preliminary evidence that suggests it may occur in the inner ear balance organs. A second aim is to advance an emerging collaboration ...
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Our Science of Balance session is now sold out. Please email HMRI via ... and physiology journals based on the balance system and how the inner ear organs and brain impact balance. Associate Professor Rebecca ...
Category: Research
... help guide the development of targeted, improved treatment options. Balance and hearing – dizziness, Meniere’s disease, tinnitus, ... system, the auditory system involves neighbouring regions in the inner ear and brain stem. In Australia, about 3.6 million people live with ...
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Hearing and balance problems arise due to ageing, environmental assaults, ... in the hearing organ (cochlea) and balance (vestibular) organs of the inner ear. In mammals, these sensory hair cells develop early during foetal ...
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Balance is essential for every aspect of daily life and especially ... for the individual and community. Vestibular dysfunction is often due inner ear problems resulting in dizziness, vertigo, visual disturbances, ...
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... focus on the vestibular system and the role that hearing and the inner ear plays with balance and the vestibular system. We tend to take good balance for ...
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... eyes and the vestibular system, which controls the workings of the inner ear, overall balance and orientation of a person in a physical space,” Associate ...
