Vestibular response to pseudorandom angular velocity input: progress report.
Space motion sickness was not reported during the first Apollo missions; however, since Apollo 8 through the current Shuttle and Skylab missions, approximately 50% of the crewmembers have experienced instances of space motion sickness. One of NASA's efforts to resolve the space adaptation syndrome is to model the vestibular response for both basic knowledge and as a possible predictor of an individual's susceptibility to the disorder. This report describes a method to analyze the vestibular system when subjected to a pseudorandom angular velocity input.
D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009041:Motion Sickness / Q000209:etiology*; D009760:Nystagmus, Physiologic; D012027:Reflex, Vestibulo-Ocular; D013026:Space Flight; D014722:Vestibule, Labyrinth / Q000502:physiology