BACKGROUND: @entity1 with @entity1296 and @entity1 with @entity4697 and @entity8396 share a common symptomatology. Numerous studies have investigated a potential link between @entity148 and the vestibular system, but few of them have addressed the specific topic of spatial representation. METHODS: Passive whole-body rotations in the horizontal plane were imposed on two groups of subjects who differed in their level of trait @entity148 . Subjects were seated on a mobile robot in darkness. After each passive @entity717 , subjects were asked to reproduce the stimulus by driving the robot with a joystick and to perform a @entity717 of the same magnitude. Eye movements were recorded and analyzed. RESULTS: No difference in either perception (accuracy in the reproduction task) or in VOR gain was found between the two groups of subjects. Mean eye deviation, caused by fast phases of the @entity346 , differed in the two groups. It was typically in the anticompensatory direction in the non-anxious group, and in the compensatory direction the anxious group. Such compensatory movement may be explained by an egocentric orientation strategy, that may in turn indicate a lack of interest toward the visual surroundings. CONCLUSIONS: An egocentric strategy for self-orientation exhibited at a level below the threshold of awareness could reveal the existence of a physiological mode of processing leading to agoraphobic avoidance.

Eye deviation during @entity717 in darkness in trait XXXX : an early expression of perceptual avoidance?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients'] @entity4697 :: ('MESH:D016584', 'Disease') :: ['panic disorder'] @entity8396 :: ('MESH:D000379', 'Disease') :: ['agoraphobia'] @entity148 :: ('MESH:D001008', 'Disease') :: ['anxiety'] @entity1296 :: ('MESH:D004244', 'Disease') :: ['dizziness'] @entity717 :: ('MESH:D009069', 'Disease') :: ['rotation'] @entity346 :: ('MESH:D009759', 'Disease') :: ['nystagmus']
@entity148 :: (MESH:D001008,Disease) :: ['anxiety']
