Description

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Introductory Remarks.- Patient history.- Neuro-ophthalmological and Neuro-otological.- Laboratory Examinations and Imaging.- General Principles of Therapy.- 2. Peripheral Vestibular Forms of Vertigo.- Benign Paroxysmal Positioning Vertigo.- Vestibular Neuritis (Acute Partial Unilateral Vestibular Deficit).- Meni re's Disease.- Vestibular Paroxysmia.- Bilateral Vestibulopathy.- Perilymph Fistulas.- 3. Central Vestibular Forms of Vertigo.- Central Vestibular Syndromes.- Vestibular Migraine / Migraine of the Basilar Type.- 4. Traumatic Forms of Vertigo.- Traumatic Peripheral Vestibular forms of Vertigo.- Traumatic Central Vestibular Forms of Vertigo.- Traumatic Cervicogenic Vertigo.- Post-traumatic Psychogenic Vertigo.- 5. Somatoform Vertigo and Dizziness Syndromes.- Overview of the somatoform vertigo and dizziness syndromes.- Phobic Postural Vertigo.- 6. Various Vertigo Syndromes.- Vertigo in Childhood and Hereditary Vertigo Syndromes.- Drug-induced Vertigo.- Cervicogenic Vertigo.- Motion Sickness.- Height Vertigo and Acrophobia.

About the Author

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Thomas Brandt, MD, FRCP German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, University of Munich, GermanyMarianne Dieterich, MDDepartment of Neurology and German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, GermanyMichael Strupp, MD Department of Neurology and German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, University Hospital Munich, Germany