Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness: a useful new syndrome.
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Seemungal, Barry M
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In this issue of Practical Neurology, Popkirov, Staab and Stone illuminate a newly defined condition—persistent postural-perceptual dizziness or ‘PPPD’, a maladaptive functional syndrome in which patients feel unbalanced despite not falling, and feel that they are moving, despite being stationary. PPPD is common in specialist dizzy clinics, accounting for 10% of cases as a primary diagnosis of dizziness. PPPD can coexist with other causes of dizziness, such as vestibular migraine or benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, and it is in this form that it most commonly presents to a specialist dizzy clinic.
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PPPD, chronic dizziness, functional neurological disorder, vertigo, vestibular therapy
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Practical Neurology
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1474-7758
1474-7766
1474-7766
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18
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BMJ
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Medical Research Council (MR/P01271X/1)
Medical Research Council (MC_U105597119)
Medical Research Council (MC_U105597119)
BMS: funded by the Medical Research Council, the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, and the Imperial Health Charity. LP: funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) (MR/P01271X/1) at the University of Cambridge, UK.