Background and Aim: Motion sickness (MS) is usually generated when there is a mismatch between the senses which serve balance. One of these senses is related to vestibular system, so it is highly possible that MS reflects in vestibular test results. But there are some conflicts in correlation between vestibular findings and MS. Thus, the objective of this study was to provide an overview of ves...

OBJECTIVE Bithermal caloric tests are among those most commonly used in vestibular function studies and require a properly systematized approach. Irrigation sequence varies between laboratories. Our objective is to study the effect of irrigation sequence on the percentage of vestibular paresis. MATERIAL AND METHOD We analysed 1214 records, 77.51% cold to hot sequences (C-H) and the rest hot t...

The effects of the "vestibular sedative" drug Flunarizine upon the oculomotor functions of pursuit and voluntary saccades and upon the vestibular response (to rotational stimuli) were assessed in twenty volunteer subjects. The study was then extended to three patients with chronic imbalance of central origin who had reported a beneficial symptomatic response to the drug. Three of the volunteer ...

the vestibular system is important for the development of normal movement reactions, motion tolerance, and motor control for postural alignment, balance, and vision. a vestibular system that is damaged by disease or injury in childhood can have a major impact on a child's development. in addition, the emergence of vestibular lesions may also lead to cognitive deficits, including attention defic...

The aim of this study was to assess postural control, vestibular symmetry and health status in otherwise healthy hip fracture subjects and compare these factors with controls. The fracture subjects were recruited from 113 consecutive patients operated 12-33 months earlier. Nineteen of those were otherwise healthy and fulfilled the inclusion criteria. They were assessed and compared with 28 age-...

To further elucidate possible central plastic adaptive processes during the recovery from a unilateral peripheral vestibular lesion, we investigated vestibular functions in humans over a period of 2 months after an acute unilateral labyrinthine lesion. A unilateral peripheral vestibular lesion creates both a tonic imbalance that causes spontaneous nystagmus and a decrease and directional asymme...

Recently, a new indicator of vestibular otolithic function has been reported: it is a series of negative-positive myogenic potentials recorded by surface electrodes on the skin beneath the eyes in response to bone-conducted vibration (BCV) delivered to the forehead at the hairline in the midline (Fz). The potential is called the ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) and the first ...

The aim of the present study was to assess whether the consistent bias in reproducing distances and lengths on visual tasks that characterizes hemispatial neglect is also present when whole body displacements have to be calculated and reproduced. Two different experiments were proposed to participants with right brain lesions and neglect syndrome (RN+), right (RN-) and left brain lesions (LN-) ...