Ground based eccentric chair experiments.
Two subjects were rotated eccentrically in a manner described before. In contrast to a normal control group settings of a luminous line to the subjective vertical were almost unrelated to the gravitoinertial summation vector of gravity and centrifugal forces about four weeks before and totally so shortly after space flight. Only after four days post flight had passed a noticeable relation to the gravitoinertial vector re-established itself in the one subject which actually flew. The correspondence became normal six days after flight. Since there were no clinical abnormalities evident in the subjects, it is suggested, that both subjects suppressed their vestibular information presumably as an effect of vestibular deconditioning training before flight. In addition as a consequence of the flight experience one subject continued to ignore it several days after the flight.
Wetzig
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Physiologisches Institut, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany.
Hofstetter-Degen
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von Baumgarten
R J
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Watanabe
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D018466:Gravity Sensing / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D010037:Otolithic Membrane / Q000502:physiology*; D011434:Proprioception / Q000502:physiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D012399:Rotation; D013026:Space Flight; D018489:Space Motion Sickness / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014724:Vestibular Function Tests; D014893:Weightlessness / Q000009:adverse effects*