Down on heights? One in three has visual height intolerance

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 597-604

  Huppert, Doreen ^a   Grill, Eva ^a   Brandt, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acrophobia; Epidemiology; Fear of heights; Height vertigo; Visual height intolerance

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGITATION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; CLIMBING; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; MOTION SICKNESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; VERTIGO; VISUAL HEIGHT INTOLERANCE; WEAKNESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SEX FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878830045     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-012-6685-1     Document Type: Article

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