[Effects of aging on air-conducted sound elicited ocular vestibular- evoked myogenic potential and cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potential].

Abstract

With the age growing, the otolithic end organ input pathways degenerate in normal subjects, as shown that ACS elicited oVEMP and cVEMP responsed less with higher threshold and smaller amplitude. The extremely low response rates of both VEMPs in the > 70-year-old group in this study indicates that VEMPs can only provide limited diagnostic information among very old people in clinical practice.