Overview
- SECOND EDITION OF VERTIGO IS A COMPLETELY REWRITTEN MONOGRAPH ON THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF VERTIGO IN THE LIGHT OF THE LATEST CLINICAL RESEARCH
- THE BOOK, WHICH SHOULD BE IN EVERY LIBRARY USED BY NEUROLOGISTS, OPHTHALMOLOGISTS AND OTOLARYNGOLOGISTS EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON PRACTICAL CLINICAL INFORMATION WITH A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE CLINICAL FEATURES AND DIAGNOSIS OF EACH DISEASE AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGEMENT AND
- THE UNDERLYING PATHOLOGICAL MECHANISM
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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.
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Vertigo: symptoms, syndromes, disorders
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Vestibular nerve and labyrinthine disorders
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Central vestibular disorders
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vertigo
Book Subtitle: Its Multisensory Syndromes
Authors: Thomas Brandt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3801-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3801-8Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 503
Topics: Neurology, Internal Medicine