title: [Vestibular function: the 6th sense... ignored].
abstract: Dizzy patients are often misunderstood by doctors. Those with a complete vestibular deficit and whose function is restored by a vestibular implant use all kinds of words to describe what they feel when the neuroprosthesis is turned on. Their feeling varied from a strong emotion to a feeling of heat. The notion of dizziness or motion was rare. How to describe the sensations provided by an ignored and unconscious sense? With the eyes, one sees; with the ears one hears; no term exists that describes what we do with the vestibular system! Should we say we vestibulise? The notion traditionally taught that patients suffering from a vestibular disorder should describe an imbalance or a rotatory vertigo, be able specify the direction of rotation, etc. is inadequate, unrealistic.
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Guyot
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Guinand
mesh_terms: D004244:Dizziness / Q000209:etiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006801:Humans; D015837:Vestibular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014724:Vestibular Function Tests