Visual vertigo: symptom assessment, spatial orientation and postural control
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Visual vertigo: symptom assessment, spatial orientation and postural control.
Certain patients with balance disorders report a 'visual vertigo' in which their symptoms are provoked or aggravated by specific visual contexts (e.g. supermarkets, driving or movement of objects). In order to determine the causes of visual vertigo (VV), we assessed symptoms, anxiety and the influence of disorienting visual stimuli in 21 such patients. In 17 out of 21 patients, a peripheral ves...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/124.8.1646