Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a common vestibular disorder that results in periods of vertigo and nystagmus, when the head is tipped relative to gravity.  (more...)

Ewald introduced a surgical procedure in the late 1800s termed "canal plugging" where the slender duct of a semicircular canal is occluded in an attempt to block sensitivity of the associate  (more...)

Three-dimensional biomechanical models of the semicircular canals were constructed from histological sections.  (more...)

The semicircular canals encode angular motion of the head using three 'prime' directions.  (more...)

Several lines of investigation indicate that hair cells located in different spatial regions of the semicircular canal sensory epithelium receive differing micromechanical inputs. Correlatio  (more...)

Mechanoelectrical transduction (MET) of sound and motion by the inner ear is highly dependent on the ionic composition of the fluids bathing the auditory and vestibular hair cells (Tasaki an  (more...)