History of chronic dizziness and mental and psychological disorders

Abstract

Chronic dizziness has long been associated with various mental and psychological disorders since 1980s. Accordingly, concepts and diagnostic terms such as phobic postural vertigo, space motion discomfort, visual vertigo, chronic subjective dizziness and chronic idiopathic dizziness have been proposed. The latest diagnostic term, persistent postural-perceptual dizziness, attempts to cover the common clinical features of these different terms. The hypothesis of relation between chronic dizziness and mental disorders includes the relation of chronic dizziness with mental disorders and personality disorders, while maladaptation is generally accepted as the central mechanism of functional dizziness. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2019.01.004

Keywords

• Dizziness
• Vertigo
• Mental disorders
• History of medicine
• Review