Anatom3DVestibular nerve
Nervus vestibularis · Rovnovážný nerv
Nervous system
Looks like
The balance part of the eighth cranial nerve, lying beside the cochlear nerve in the inner ear canal.
What it does
Carries head-movement and gravity signals from the semicircular canals and otolith organs to the brainstem.
Keeping it well
Inflammation (vestibular neuritis) causes days of severe spinning vertigo. Vertigo with weakness, slurred speech or double vision is a stroke sign.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Hearing loss & presbycusis
- Lyme disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Tetanus
- Vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies