Treatment of Chronic Subjective Dizziness by SSRIs
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Chronic subjective dizziness.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW In 1986, the German neurologists Thomas Brandt and Marianne Dieterich described a syndrome of phobic postural vertigo (PPV) based on clinical observations of patients with nonvertiginous dizziness that could not be explained by then-known neuro-otologic disorders. Subsequent research by an American team led by Jeffrey Staab and Michael Ruckenstein confirmed the core physical s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nippon Jibiinkoka Gakkai Kaiho
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0030-6622,1883-0854
DOI: 10.3950/jibiinkoka.116.1208