Inhaltsangabe1 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 1.1 Vertigo or dizziness: multisensory syndromes 1.2 Patient history 1.3 Neuroophthalmological and neurootological examination 1.4 Apparative examinations 1.4.1 Electronystagmography (ENG) 1.4.2 Videooculography 1.4.3 Neuroorthoptic and psychophysical procedures 1.4.4 Audiometry 1.4.5 Other additional apparative examinations 1.4.6 Imaging of the petrous bone, the cerebellopontine angle, and the brainstem by means of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging 1.5 General principles of therapy 2 PERIPHERAL VESTIBULAR FORMS OF VERTIGO 2.1 Benign paroxysmal positioning vertigo (BPPV) 2.1.1 Patient history 2.1.2 Clinical features and course 2.1.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles 2.1.4 Pragmatic therapy 2.1.5 BPPV of the horizontal canal (h-BPPV) 2.1.6 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.1.7 Central positional vertigo / nystagmus 2.2 Vestibular neuritis (acute partial unilateral vestibular failure) 2.2.1 Patient history 2.2.2 Clinical features and course 2.2.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles 2.2.4 Pragmatic therapy 2.2.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.3 Menière's disease 2.3.1 Patient history 2.3.2 Clinical syndrome and course 2.3.3 Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles 2.3.4 Pragmatic therapy 2.3.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.4 Vestibular paroxysmia 2.4.1 Patient history 2.4.2 Clinical aspects and course 2.4.3 Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles 2.4.4 Pragmatic therapy 2.4.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.5 Bilateral vestibulopathy 2.5.1 Patient history 2.5.2 Clinical aspects and natural course 2.5.3 Etiology, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles 2.5.4 Pragmatic therapy 2.5.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 2.6 Perilymph fistulas 2.6.1 Patient history 2.6.2 Clinical aspects and course 2.6.3 Pathophysiology and therapeuticprinciples 2.6.4 Pragmatic therapy 2.6.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 3 CENTRAL VESTIBULAR FORMS OF VERTIGO 3.1 Central vestibular syndromes 3.1.1 Clinical aspects, course of disease, pathophysiology, and therapeutic principles 3.1.2 Central vestibular syndromes in the three planes of action of the vestibulo-ocular reflex 3.2 Basilar migraine / vestibular migraine 3.2.1 Patient history 3.2.2 Clinical aspects and course 3.2.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles 3.2.4 Pragmatic therapy 3.2.5 Ineffective treatments 3.2.6 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 4 TRAUMATIC FORMS OF VERTIGO 4.1 Traumatic peripheral vestibular dizziness 4.2 Traumatic central vestibular forms of vertigo 4.3 Traumatic cervical vertigo 4.4 Posttraumatic psychogenic vertigo 5 PSYCHOGENIC FORMS OF VERTIGO AND DIZZINESS 5.1 Phobic postural vertigo 5.1.1 Patient history 5.1.2 Clinical aspects and course of the illness 5.1.3 Pathophysiology and therapeutic principles 5.1.4 Pragmatic therapy 5.1.5 Differential diagnosis and clinical problems 6 VARIOUS VERTIGO SYNDROMES 6.1 Vertigo / dizziness in childhood and hereditary vertigo syndromes 6.1.1 Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood 6.1.2 Familial episodic ataxia types 1 and 2 6.1.3 Motion sickness 6.2 Druginduced vertigo 6.3 Cervicogenic vertigo 6.4 Motion sickness 6.4.1 Clinical aspects and pathogenesis 6.4.2 Course and therapy 6.4.3 Pragmatic therapy 6.5 Height vertigo 6.5.1 Syndromal aspects and pathogenesis 6.5.2 Course and therapy Index List of videos