Dry immersion as a model of deafferentation: A neurophysiology study using somatosensory evoked potentials.

INTRODUCTION:Dry immersion is a ground-based experiment simulating the effects of weightlessness, and it is a model of acute symmetrical bilateral deafferentation. This exploratory study aimed to investigate the effects of three days of dry immersion (DI) on sensory thresholds and the functioning of...

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Main Authors: Blandine Acket, Liubov Amirova, Angelique Gerdelat, Pascal Cintas, Marc-Antoine Custaud, Anne Pavy-LeTraon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6104952?pdf=render