title: Why do subjective vertigo and dizziness persist over one year after a vestibular vertigo syndrome?
abstract: The overlap and interlinkage of dizzy symptoms in patients with psychiatric and vestibular vertigo/dizziness disorders is the subject of an ongoing debate. In a one-year follow up in 68 patients with vestibular vertigo syndromes, the persistency of vertigo and dizziness symptoms was examined and correlated with vestibular parameters and results from a psychiatric evaluation. Patients with vestibular migraine showed poorest improvement of vertigo and dizziness symptoms over time. In addition, patients who developed anxiety or depressive disorder after the onset of the vestibular disorder showed poor improvement and high persistency of symptoms.
authors: Department of Neurology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.
authors: Christoph
authors: C
authors: Best
authors: Annegret
authors: A
authors: Eckhardt-Henn
authors: Regine
authors: R
authors: Tschan
authors: Marianne
authors: M
authors: Dieterich
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety; D003863:Depression; D004244:Dizziness / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D014717:Vertigo / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology