The Tenth Edition of Hunter's Diseases of Occupations has been fully revised and updated,
presenting all practitioners considering an occupational cause for a patient's condition with …

New Findings What is the topic of this review? This review concerns human responses to
extreme environmental stresses. What advances does it highlight? This review highlights the …

Objectives: Motion sickness (MS) is evoked by the conflict among somatosensory, visual,
and vestibular input. Some of the MS symptoms and signs are mediated by activation of the …

Motion sickness (MS) has been identified as a non-thermal factor that can moderate
autonomic thermoregulatory responses. It has been shown that MS exaggerates core …

The human body is acted on continuously by the force of the Earth's gravity and is well
adapted to an existence in this environment. However, aircraft and spacecraft are capable of …

Motion sickness (MS) has been found to increase body-core cooling during immersion in
28° C water, an effect ascribed to attenuation of the cold-induced peripheral vasoconstriction …

OBJECTIVES: Seasickness occurs when traveling on a boat: symptoms such as vomiting
are very disturbing and may be responsible for discontinuing travel or occupation and can …

New Findings What is the central question of the study? We have previously shown that
sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation induces greater modulation of skin sympathetic …

Susceptibility to motion sickness (MS) varies considerably among humans. However, the
cause of such variation is unclear. Here, we used a classical genetic approach to obtain …

Connexins are components of gap junctions which facilitate transfer of small molecules
between cells. One member of the connexin family, Connexin 26 (Cx26), is prevalent in gap …