!Inner Ear - Vestibular System
!!Anatomy
The vestibular system is the sensory system that provides the leading contribution about __spatial orientation__ and __sense of balance__. Together with the ((Sensory - Ear Inner - Hearing |cochlea)), a part of the ((Sensory - Ear - Auditory System Overview|auditory system)), it constitutes the labyrinth of the inner ear, situated in the vestibulum in the inner ear. 

As movements consist of rotations and translations, the vestibular system comprises two components:
*the fluid-filled __semicircular canal system__, which indicate rotational movements
*the __otoliths__, which indicate linear accelerations. 

The vestibular system sends signals primarily to the neural structures that control eye movements, and to the ((Musculoskeletal - Skeletal Muscles|muscles)) that keep a creature upright. The projections to the former provide the anatomical basis of the __vestibulo-ocular reflex__, which is required for clear vision; and the projections to the muscles that control posture are necessary to keep a creature upright.
The brain uses information from the vestibular system in the head and from __proprioception__ throughout the body to understand the body's dynamics and kinematics (including its position and acceleration) from moment to moment.

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!!Brain
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!!!Relay:
Cerebral Cortex (-/+) postsensory cortex basal portion of temporal lobe, compare ((Sensory - Ear Inner - Hearing |Cochlea)) 
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!!Mind
!!!Theme:
Being out of control, out of balance, fear of falling

!!!Emotions, Thoughts:
__Fear, uncertainty, vertigo__
*This is throwing me off balance.
*I lose the ground under my feet.
*I witnessed how she fell.
*I'm losing control!
!!!META-Meaning:
*I am rooted in the earth and in my life. 
*Balance and ease come to me naturally. 
*I find a fixed point to focus on.

!!Organ
!!!Stress Phase Symptoms:
__Vertigo__ is a functional change in the vestibular system without reinforcing or degrading tissue. Because of vertigo, a __tendency to falling__ is often experienced. Symptoms of vertigo can be a feeeling of whirling or spinning movement, dizziness in which a patient inappropriately experiences the perception of motion (usually a spinning motion), nausea, vomiting as well as a balance disorder.

!!!Regeneration Phase Symptoms:
In regeneration phase, the vertigo disappears. When ((Sensory - Ear Middle - Ossicles, muscles and cartilage|bone structure)) is affected, __labyrinthitis__ appears. __Otosclerosis__ may develop after intense process with viral infection (this sometimes is observed connected to measles), or after recurrences.

!!!Healing Peak:
Vertigo and falling.
Vertigo can also remain as a __warning signal__ appearing as a conditioned reflex (VAKOGS) upon stress triggers.
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!!!Biological Meaning:
Biological meaning in stress phase is to stay on safe ground, to stay more in contact to the earth.

!!Social
!!!Examples:
*A woman saw her grandchild fall down from the swing.

*A young woman developed vertigo after a climbing accident where she fell and hurt herself.

*A woman feels that she loses control over her life, work, and relationship. After getting glandular fever (Mononucleosis infectiosa), she suffers repeating rotatory vertigo. (Klapp)

*A woman got hearing loss/tinnitus as well as vertigo and labyrinthitis after the deaths of family members.

!!Additional Information
!!!Constellations
__Orientation, "Funambulist"__: equilibrium conflicts in both hemispheres create extraordinary talents in balancing and orientation; often connected to __Megalomania__ (when bones are affected), or __"Flying" constellation__ (larynx & bronchial mucosae). 

!!!Differential Diagnosis:
Vertigo can also be caused by __low blood pressure__ and by __high intracerebral pressure__ like in deep regeneration phases, by certain medication, by epilepsy (healing peaks of sensory and motoric cortex relays), by water deficiency, and by affections of the vestibulocochlear nerve.

__Inner Ear, ((Sensory - Ear Inner - Hearing |Hearing ))__(Cerebral Cortex, -/+), (non-organic functional change) Tinnitus in stress phase (unwanted sound), temporary hearing loss in regeneration phase. Possibly hearing constellation (voices, paranoia, can be manic/depressive if territorial theme).

__Middle and Inner Ear, ((Sensory - Ear Middle - Ossicles, muscles and cartilage|bones and cartilage))__ (Cerebral Medulla, -/+) Stress (self-doubt regarding hearing): functional loss; reinforcement and possibly otosclerosis after completed regeneration phase.
