Recent discoveries have emphasized the role of the vestibular system in cognitive
processes such as memory, spatial navigation and bodily self-consciousness. A precise …

Patients who present to the emergency department with symptoms of acute vertigo or
dizziness are frequently misdiagnosed. Missed opportunities to promptly treat dangerous …

Objective: Validation of a bedside test to measure the monocular and binocular subjective
visual vertical (SVV). Methods: Monocular and binocular measurements of the SVV were …

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of the central nervous
system leading to disability, especially in young patients. Acute or chronic lesions of MS …

Skew deviation is a vertical strabismus caused by a supranuclear lesion in the posterior
fossa. Because skew deviation may clinically mimic trochlear nerve palsy, it is sometimes …

Central vertigo is a heterogeneous group of disorders with diverse clinical spectrums. An
integrated approach based on understanding of clinical features, laboratory findings …

Eye movements bring visual stimuli to the fovea and also maintain foveal fixation on a
moving target and during head movements. These movements are performed by the ocular …

The perceived subjective visual vertical (SVV) is an important sign of a vestibular otolith tone
imbalance in the roll plane. Previous studies suggested that unilateral pontomedullary …

OBJECTIVE: The ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP), a recently
documented otolith-ocular reflex, is considered to reflect the central projections of the …

Information from the vestibular nuclei ascending through the brainstem to the oculomotor
and trochlear nuclei (NIII, NIV), the interstitial nucleus of Cajal (INC), the pretectum, or …