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Ten years ago, while touring the west coast of Ireland, I had a sudden onset of vertigo without hearing loss, tinnitus, or fullness in an ear. As a neurologist, I did entertain fleeting dark thoughts of a fatal basilar occlusion or brain-stem tumor. But without accompanying neurologic symptoms, the obvious diagnosis was vestibular neuritis — a disorder then thought to have a "viral" cause and a benign course. Therefore, I took no medications, abdicated the driving to my wife, and leaned back for several days of unsteadiness. I had full confidence that central compensation would allow for my rapid adaptation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore.

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