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Altered Sensory-Motor Control of the Head as an Etiological Factor in Space-Motion Sickness

Lackner, James R., Dizio, Paul·1989·Perceptual and Motor Skills

Abstract

Mechanical unloading during head movements in weightlessness may be an etiological factor in space-motion sickness. We simulated altered head loading on Earth without affecting vestibular stimulation by having subjects wear a weighted helmet. Eight subjects were exposed to constant velocity rotation about a vertical axis with direction reversals every 60 sec. for eight reversals with the head loaded and eight with the head unloaded. The severity of motion sickness elicited was significantly higher when the head was loaded. This suggests that altered sensory-motor control of the head is also an etiological factor in space-motion sickness.

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  • In weightless conditions of space flight, changed control of body orientation and vestibular alterations (otolith unloading) are extremely provocative during the first several days.

    “This changed control of the body and the alterations in vestibular function (unloading of the otolith organs) occurring in weightless conditions are extremely provocative during the first several days of space flight (Lackner and DiZio 1989, 2006; Lackner et al. 1991; Thornton and Bonato 2013).”

    From Motion sickness: more than nausea and vomiting (2014) · cites this paper as Lackner and DiZio 1989

  • Being in a weightless environment alters sensory motor control of the head as an inertial mass, and such alterations are provocative per se.

    “Being in a weightless environment alters the sensory motor control of the head as an inertial mass, and we now know that such alterations are provocative per se (Lackner and DiZio 1989, 2006; Lackner and Graybiel 1980, 1986b; Oman 1987; Oman et al. 1986, 1990; Thornton and Bonato 2013).”

    From Motion sickness: more than nausea and vomiting (2014) · cites this paper as Lackner and DiZio 1989

  • During initial days of Skylab missions, astronauts became motion sick simply by making head and body movements.

    “During the initial days of the missions, the astronauts, however, did become motion sick simply by virtue of making head and body movements.”

    From Motion sickness: more than nausea and vomiting (2014) · cites this paper as Lackner and DiZio 1989

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Authors
Lackner, J. R., & Dizio, P.
Affiliations
Brandeis University (US)
Venue
Perceptual and Motor Skills
Published
1989-06
Volume
68
Issue
3
Pages
784-786
ISSN
  • 0031-5125 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-688X
OpenAlex
W4298303317
Cited by
136
References
4
Citations by year
2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2014: 1
FWCI
31.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Perceptual and Motor Skills (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Keywords
space motion sickness, sensorimotor control, vestibular stimulation, microgravity
MeSH terms
Head, Humans, Nausea, Psychomotor Performance, Rotation, Weight-Bearing, Space Motion Sickness

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