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Scientists of both clinical and basic medicine, physicians, inspecting engineers, and nurses present some 85 papers on the nystagmus signal as a key for analyzing equilibrium disorders, recent developments in modern neuro-otological therapy, sports and space medicine, and other aspects of equilibrium function. The featured lecture is on the neural mechanisms of saccadic eye movements; other topics include vestibular function tests in 526 patients with long-standing deafness, treating vascular vertigo with defibrotide, the balance ability of elderly people who have and have not received sports training, the Hungarian contribution to research in space sickness, and cranio-corpo-graphy in schizophrenic patients. Reproduced from typescripts, some double spaced. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.