The vestibular system is integral to maintaining balance and spatial orientation, and a critical component of this network is the efferent vestibular system. This descending neuronal pathway modulates ...

The first direct evidence showing how the vestibular system's horizontal canals play a key role in sensing our direction in the environment has been uncovered by scientists. Dartmouth researchers have ...

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 ...

More than half of the population will see a doctor at some point in their lives with symptoms related to the vestibular system (e.g., dizziness, vertigo, imbalance and blurred vision). The vestibular ...

Hyderabad: The human body performs various postural actions in a day from walking to dancing. All these actions are done with the support of postural equilibrium. All the five sense organs working to ...

Feeling like something is making your head spin right round? You may be suffering from vestibular neuritis, a condition that can not only cause dizziness but also trigger migraines. While it may feel ...