Motor development in infants is dependent upon the function of the inner ear balance organ (vestibular organ). Vestibular failure causes motor delays in early infancy and suboptimal motor skills later ...

August 27, 2009 — Investigators have found that induced vertigo can act as a trigger for migraine. Researchers say that understanding vertigo as a stimulus for serious headache could have important ...

Bilateral vestibulopathy (BV) is a disabling disorder characterized by a significantly reduced or absent vestibular function bilaterally. BV can present with a broad spectrum of symptoms, such as ...

A new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows that the balance system can be assessed during the first months of life. Using new, child-friendly methods, health care services can detect ...

Vestibular dysfunction was shown to be a determinant of imbalance in Parkinson disease independent from visual and somatosensory processing changes and nigrostriatal dopaminergic losses. Imbalance in ...

Assessing extraocular muscle activity by recording ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMP) is a promising test for isolated ocular myasthenia gravis (MG), report researchers. The test, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Research into concussions has been growing rapidly over the past decade. The majority of the research that has ...

The video head impulse test (vHIT) and caloric test can help differentiate Meniere disease (MD) from vestibular migraine (VM), according to a study published online Aug. 6 in Frontiers in Neurology.

Discover Robert Bárány's Nobel-winning research that revolutionized the understanding of balance, vertigo, and vestibular ...

BEGINNINGS: “I did not originally plan on pursuing audiology. When I was an undergrad I got in an accident and I had to be in physical therapy for a year and a half. My physical therapist did ...