Vertigo: Its Multisensory Syndromes

✍ Scribed by Professor Thomas Brandt FRCP (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 495
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph has been written for clinicians who are involved in the management of the dizzy patient and for scientists with a particular interest in the multi-sensorimotor mechan­ isms that subserve spatial orientation, motion perception, and ocular motor and postural con­ trol. Special emphasis has been put on making the correct diagnosis, and detailed recommendations have been given for specific treatments. The second edition has resulted in an almost completely new book due to the dramatic expansion in the 1990s of our understanding of vestibular function and dis orders. A few rele­ vant examples include the novel concept of canalolithiasis, as opposed to cupulolithiasis, both of which are established causes of typical posterior and horizontal canal benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo; familial episodic ataxia land II have been identified as inherited chan­ nelopathies; otolithic syndromes were recognized as a variety separate from semicircular canal syndromes; several new central vestibular syndromes have been described, localized, and attributed to vestibular pathways and centres; a new classification based on the three major planes of action of the vestibulo-ocular reflex is available for central vestibular syn­ dromes; and the mystery of the location and function of the multisensory vestibular cortex is slowly being unravelled. This book differs from other clinical textbooks in that it is not divided into two parts: anatomy and physiology, on the one hand, and disorders, on the other.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-21
Approaching the patient....Pages 23-48
Management of the dizzy patient....Pages 49-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Vestibular neuritis....Pages 67-81
Menière’s disease....Pages 83-98
Perilymph fistulas (PLF)....Pages 99-115
Peripheral vestibular paroxysmia (disabling positional vertigo)....Pages 117-126
Bilateral vestibulopathy....Pages 127-141
Miscellaneous vestibular nerve and labyrinthine disorders....Pages 143-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-173
Vestibular disorders in (frontal) roll plane....Pages 175-197
Vestibular disorders in (sagittal) pitch plane....Pages 199-213
Vestibular disorders in (horizontal) yaw plane....Pages 215-218
Vestibular cortex: its locations, functions, and disorders....Pages 219-231
Vestibular epilepsy....Pages 233-239
Miscellaneous central vestibular disorders....Pages 241-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-249
Benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo....Pages 251-283
Positional nystagmus/vertigo with specific gravity differential between cupula and endolymph (buoyancy hypothesis)....Pages 285-289
Central positional vertigo....Pages 291-299
Front Matter....Pages 301-305
Stroke and vertigo....Pages 307-324
Migraine and vertigo....Pages 325-340
Front Matter....Pages 301-305
Hyperviscosity syndrome and vertigo....Pages 341-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-345
Head and neck injury....Pages 347-350
Vertigo due to barotrauma....Pages 351-354
Iatrogenic vestibular disorders....Pages 355-359
Front Matter....Pages 361-363
Familial periodic ataxia/vertigo (episodic ataxia)....Pages 365-374
Vertigo in childhood....Pages 375-381
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Vertigo, dizziness, and falls in the elderly....Pages 385-392
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Drugs and vertigo....Pages 395-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-407
Visual vertigo: visual control of motion and balance....Pages 409-440
Somatosensory vertigo....Pages 441-451
Front Matter....Pages 453-453
Psychiatric disorders and vertigo....Pages 455-468
Phobic postural vertigo....Pages 469-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-483
Motion sickness....Pages 485-496
Back Matter....Pages 497-503

✦ Subjects

Neurology; Internal Medicine