Meniere's disease: A chronic
inner ear disorder that also causes hearing loss and tinnitus and tends to progressively worsen.
Neurophysiologist James Phillips describes how he and his collaborators sought to restore a sense of balance to people suffering from a debilitating
inner ear disorder.
«Dish - grown human inner ear tissues offer unprecedented opportunities to develop and test new therapies for various
inner ear disorders.»
They also treat issues that are less obviously neurologic in nature, such as
inner ear disorders and neuromuscular diseases that target the peripheral nervous system.
Not exact matches
Vestibular neuritis, an inflammatory
disorder of nerves in the
inner ear.
With Biogen's expertise in neuroscience research and drug development and Ionis» leadership in RNA targeted therapies, the companies plan to advance antisense programs for a broad range of neurological diseases including dementia, neuromuscular diseases, movement
disorders, diseases of the eyes and
inner ear, and neuropsychiatry.
The most common form is peripheral vestibular disease which arises from
disorders affecting the
inner ear and nerves (i.e. not the central nervous system).
For some dogs, infections of the
inner ear can destroy nerves in that area and create the
disorder.
Peripheral vestibular disease is caused by
disorders of the
inner ear (the body's balance center), whereas central vestibular disease arises from balance issues within the brain.