The Vestibular System: The Brain and Balance

The vestibular system is responsible for a host of functions you take for granted — at least until it malfunctions.

[juliemathieson]

Thank You Steve, I have severe Vestibular Damage due to Gentamicin Toxicity, I've saved your video to show my family members & friends so they can better understand my condition.

[fern]

I had labyrinthitis vertigo and this video explained so well the weird symptoms I experienced. The nausea at the start, the two weeks ir so of spinning, inability to track objects, difficulty telling the difference between forward and backward movement. The vestibular ocular reflex defect made me feel like my reality was on a half second delay.

It took about 5 or 6 weeks for all the symptoms to completely go away, and even then I'd have trouble balancing, walking across a room in the dark.

It's an very odd sensory experience because it's a system that works so seamlessly most of the time that you forget it exists. Vertigo was a much stranger experience and more reality altering than when I scatched my cornea and couldn't see for a week, or had a plugged ear from an infection. There's no great work-around when the vestibular sensory system is messed up, if you know what I mean.

[sharonwaterbury]

off balance for 2 years, therapist showed me exercises for my eyes, it worked!

[monserratelapuerta]

Great information thank you so much for your feed back on vestibular system.

[AlbaYogaAcademy]

We do know why motion sickness happens; it's a threat response from the brain, much like pain, due to the mismatch in sensory information

[naz]

Thanks alot !! Thats really helped me for studying!

[Nithish-bobw]

i have idiopathic generalized epilepsy give me some suggestions sir for not get exitation

[karinamatos]

And I am Karina and I like you. Thanks for sharing!

[lduranceau]

I never knew that the ear system was so complicated. BTW, can the vestibular system be affected by cervical osteoarthritis at high levels?

[FighterFred]

I understand the complexity, but you should at least come up with a treatment of an infected balance nerve. Had that 2 weeks ago and it was both traumatic and scary and required hospitalization.

[tycox]

I’ve seen enough YouTube videos of people trying to stay upright and composed on ice to know that the vestibular system doesn’t exist. 😊

[sistergrace]

I have all the symptoms of CTE and fall all the time .
Recently broke my hand in a fall . Being checked for MS also .Can not even close my eyes and stand up without falling . Don’t understand why .
Ty for the video .

[Nithish-bobw]

how neurons are exites in our brain sir

[rizike]

BrainFacts.org, amazing explanation. This was mentioned 1400 years ago about Inner Ear and it's balance. Allah says:[Quran 18.11] Then We hit on their ears in the cave for a number of years.

[urbangardens]

Is there anywhere in the US where the Electrovestibulography (EVestG) is being used. It measures vestibular response to horizontal pursuit and saccadic eye movements. Thanks!

[gbbbgg]

best explanation of otoliths hands down