Vertigo : five physician scientists and the quest for a cure / Robert W. Baloh, MD, Professor of Neurology and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Director of Neurotology Clinic and Laboratory, Ronald Regan Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]Description: xiii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780190600129 (alk. paper)
- RB150.V4 B35 2017
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| RB150.F37 H384 2014 Plague : | RB150.S84 M35 2015 Understanding and preventing sudden death : | RB150.S84 P74 2017 Preventing sudden death in sport and physical activity / | RB150.V4 B35 2017 Vertigo : | RB150.V4 B853 2014 Vertigo and dizziness | RB150.V4 S93 2016 Vertigo made easy / | RB150.V4 W45 2016 Dizziness : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ménière recognizes that vertigo can originate from the inner ear -- Ménière, a man of many interests -- Breuer discovers how the balance portion of the inner ear works -- Breuer, the Renaissance man -- Breuer's experiments on the semicircular canals and otolith organs -- Breuer's contributions to psychiatry and philosophy -- Politzer's otology clinic and the discovery of the caloric test -- Bárány's formative years and the conflict in Politzer's clinic -- The war years and Bárány's decision to leave Vienna -- Bárány's test battery and the first description of BPPV -- Bárány's life in Uppsala and his work with Lorente de Nó -- Hallpike and the pathology of Ménière's disease -- Hallpike's formative years -- Hallpike's caloric test -- Hallpike defines the syndrome of BPPV -- Schuknecht and his breakthrough on BPPV -- Schuknecht's temporal bone bank in Boston -- Schuknecht's crusade against myths in otology -- Semont and Epley maneuvers -- Evolution of treatment maneuvers for BPPV -- Summary and future directions.