Ever since I was a child I suffered from motion sickness – I loathed long driving trips as they would often result of me being sick all over myself. Nowadays, since experiencing a stroke, I’ve found that my motion sickness extends to watching “fast moving” movies at the theatre, think The Transformers.
Canadian researchers have pinpointed the exact cells that respond to unexpected movement to our bodies within miliseconds. These cells also play a key role in motion sickness. They are a small group of cells located deep within the cerebellum. This has enabled author, Kathleen Cullen, and her group of researchers, from McGill University, Montreal, to clearly demonstrate how the cerebellum selectively encodes unexpected motion, to then send our body messages that help us maintain our balance. (Cited in Univadus, 1st August, 2013.)
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