Abstract
Vertigo may be paroxysmal or of long duration. In both cases it is experienced by many patients as an alarming event or condition. As a result, description of vertigo is frequently not very clear, and history taking requires both sound knowledge of the clinical varieties and a good deal of patience. We distinguish directional vertigo from unsystematic dizziness. Directional, mostly rotating vertigo must be attributed to functional disturbance of one labyrinth, because only there are the directions in space represented separately. Unsystematic dizziness results from functional disturbance in higher levels of the vestibular system, where specific directional information is integrated.
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Poeck, K. (1985). Vertigo. In: Diagnostic Decisions in Neurology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70693-6_39
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