Vertigo is not a unique disease entity. The term covers a number of multisensory and sensorimotor syndromes of various etiologies and pathogeneses, which can be elucidated only with an interdisciplinary approach. After headache, it is one of the most frequent presenting symptoms, not only in neurology.
This volume aims to make the different vestibular syndromes more understandable by developing clear, anatomical categories and clinical classifications. The volume will also capture the ongoing interactions among neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, neurologists, ENT-doctors, ophthalmologists, biologists, neuroinformaticans, and engineers. Topics that will be of interest include the vestibular system and spatial orientation, the role of the cerebellum in postural control, genetics of vestibular disorders, control of gait, functional imaging of the vestibular system, aging of the vestibular system and modeling of vestibular and ocular motor disorders.

Preface (Michael Strupp, Bernard Cohen, and Ulrich Buttner).
Part I: Vestibular Anatomy and Neurophysiology.

1. Vestibular and proprioceptive contributions to human balance corrections: aiding these with prosthetic feedback (C.G.C. Horlings , M.G. Carpenter , F. Honegger, and J.H.J. Allum).

2. The Configuration and Attachment of the Utricular and Saccular Maculae to the Temporal Bone. New Evidence from Micro-CT studies of the Membranous Labyrinth (I.S. Curthoys, H. Uzun-Coruhlu, C.C. Wong, A.S. Jones, and A.P. Bradshaw).

3. How vestibular neurons solve the tilt/translation ambiguity: Comparison of brainstem, cerebellum and thalamus (Dora E. Angelaki And Tatyana A. Yakusheva).

4. How Actions Alter Sensory Processing: reafference in the vestibular system (Kathleen E. Cullen, Jessica X. Brooks, and Soroush G. Sadeghi).

5. Vestibulo-ocular signal transformation in frequency-tuned channels (Hans Straka, Francois M. Lambert, Sandra Pfanzelt, and Mathieu Beraneck).

6. The Edinger-Westphal nucleus represents different functional cell groups in different species (Anja K.E. Horn, Christina Schulze, and Susanne Radtke-Schuller).

7. Parallel ascending vestibular pathways: Anatomical localization and functional specialization (Andreas Zwergal , Michael Strupp , Thomas Brandt, and Jean A. Buttner-Ennever).

8. Modification of the Cervico-Ocular Reflex (COR) by Canal-Plugging (Sergei B Yakushin, Yelena Tarasenko, Theodore Raphan, Jun-Ichi Suzuki, Charles C Della Santina, Lloyd B Minor, and Bernard Cohen).

Part II: Vestibular Behavioral Physiology.

9. The Human Vertical Translation Vestibulo-ocular Reflex (tVOR) (Normal and Abnormal Responses: Ke Liao, Mark F. Walker, Anand Joshi, Millard Reschke, Michael Strupp, R. John Leigh).

10. Postural Compensation for Vestibular Loss (Fay B. Horak).

11. What the “broken escalator” phenomenon teaches us about balance (Adolfo M. Bronstein, Karen L Bunday and Raymond Reynolds).

12. Effect of Canal Plugging on Quadrupedal Locomotion in Monkey (Bernard Cohen, Yongqing Xiang, Sergei B. Yakushin, Mikhail Kunin, Theodore Raphan, Lloyd B Minor, and Charles C. Della Santina).

13. Human bipeds use quadrupedal coordination during locomotion (Volker Dietz and Jan Michel).

14. Structural changes in the human brain following vestibular neuritis indicate central vestibular compensation (Christoph Helmchen, Jan Klinkenstein, Bjorn Machner, Holger Rambold, Christian Mohr, and Thurid Sander).

15. Galvanic vestibular stimulation combines with earth-horizontal rotation in roll to induce the illusion of translation (Erich Schneider, Klaus Bartl, and Stefan Glasauer).

16. Temporary lesions of the caudal deep cerebellar nucleus in non-human primates: Gain, offset and ocular alignment (Andreas Straube, Werner Scheuerer, Farrel R Robinson, and Thomas Eggert).

17. Balance before Reason in Rats and Humans (Paul F. Smith, Thomas Brandt, Michael Strupp, Cynthia L. Darlington, and Yiwen Zheng).

18. Anxiety-Related Behavior And Biogenic Amine Pathways In The Rat Following Bilateral Vestibular Lesions (Cynthia L. Darlington, Matthew Goddard, Yiwen Zheng, and Paul F. Smith).

19. Estimating the time constants of the rVOR: a model based study (S. Ramat and G. Bertolini).

Part III: Ocular Motor System, Visual System, and Perception.

20. Signal Processing and Distribution in Cortical-Brainstem Pathways for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (Michael J. Mustari, Seiji Ono, and Vallabh E. Das).

21. Effect of gravity on vertical eye position (C. Pierrot-Deseilligny).

22. Some Perspectives on Saccade Adaptation (Jing Tian, Vincent Ethier, Reza Shadmehr, Masahiko Fujita, and David S. Zee).

23. Respiratory impact on motion sickness induced by linear motion (Agali Mert, Ineke Klopping-Ketelaars, and Willem Bles).

24. Vestibular Critical Period