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Assessment of Static Graviceptive Perception in the Roll-Plane using the Subjective Visual Vertical Paradigm
Published on: April 28, 2020
[Somatoform vertigo syndrome]
A Eckhardt-Henn1, R Tschan, C Best
1Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie/ Medizinische Klinik 2, Bürgerhospital Klinikum Stuttgart, Tunzhoferstrasse 14-16, 70901 Stuttgart. A.Eckhardt@klinikum-stuttgart.de
Abstract:
Nearly 50% of the patients in general medicine practice suffer from vertigo. In specialized vertigo clinics approximately 50% of the patients have either a primary or secondary somatoform vertigo, which develops after a peripheral vestibular disorder (in nearly 30%). The different subgroups of somatoform vertigo and a pathogenetic model for the two forms of somatoform vertigo are presented. Interesting interactions between neuro-anatomical, neurophysiological and psychological mechanisms concerning anxiety and vertigo are described. Therapeutic principles which are important for the treatment of patients with complex somatoform vertigo disorders are described.
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