The second edition has resulted in an almost completely new book due to the dramatic expansion in the 1990s of our understanding of vestibular function and dis orders. several new central vestibular syndromes have been described, localized, and attributed to vestibular pathways and centres;

Section A Vertigo: symptoms, syndromes, disorders.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Approaching the patient.- 3 Management of the dizzy patient.- Section B Vestibular nerve and labyrinthine disorders.- 4 Vestibular neuritis.- 5 Menière’s disease.- 6 Perilymph fistulas (PLF).- 7 Peripheral vestibular paroxysmia (disabling positional vertigo).- 8 Bilateral vestibulopathy.- 9 Miscellaneous vestibular nerve and labyrinthine disorders.- Section C Central vestibular disorders.- 10 Vestibular disorders in (frontal) roll plane.- 11 Vestibular disorders in (sagittal) pitch plane.- 12 Vestibular disorders in (horizontal) yaw plane.- 13 Vestibular cortex: its locations, functions, and disorders.- 14 Vestibular epilepsy.- 15 Miscellaneous central vestibular disorders.- Section D Positional and positioning vertigo.- 16 Benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo.- 17 Positional nystagmus/vertigo with specific gravity differential between cupula and endolymph (buoyancy hypothesis).- 18 Central positional vertigo.- Section E Vascular vertigo.- 19 Stroke and vertigo.- 20 Migraine and vertigo.- 21 Hyperviscosity syndrome and vertigo.- Section F Traumatic vertigo.- 22 Head and neck injury.- 23 Vertigo due to barotrauma.- 24 Iatrogenic vestibular disorders.- Section G Hereditary vestibular disorders and vertigo in childhood.- 25 Familial periodic ataxia/vertigo (episodic ataxia).- 26 Vertigo in childhood.- Section H Vertigo, dizziness, and falls in the elderly.- 27 Vertigo, dizziness, and falls in the elderly.- Section I Drugs and vertigo.- 28 Drugs and vertigo.- Section J Non-vestibular (sensory) vertigo syndromes.- 29 Visual vertigo: visual control of motion and balance.- 30 Somatosensory vertigo.- Section K Psychogenic vertigo.- 31 Psychiatric disorders and vertigo.- 32 Phobic postural vertigo.- Section L Physiological vertigo.- 33 Motion sickness.

SECOND EDITION OF VERTIGO IS A COMPLETELY REWRITTEN MONOGRAPH ON THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF VERTIGO IN THE LIGHT OF THE LATEST CLINICAL RESEARCHTHE BOOK, WHICH SHOULD BE IN EVERY LIBRARY USED BY NEUROLOGISTS, OPHTHALMOLOGISTS AND OTOLARYNGOLOGISTS EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON PRACTICAL CLINICAL INFORMATION WITH A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE CLINICAL FEATURES AND DIAGNOSIS OF EACH DISEASE AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGEMENT ANDTHE UNDERLYING PATHOLOGICAL MECHANISM