The interrelated functions of several systems that evolved hundreds of millions of years ago – the vestibular,cerebellar, sympathetic, and cardiovascular systems – have important clinical implications in modernneurology and neuro-otology. Operating largely out of consciousness, the vestibular system respondsto head and body movement in any direction, stabilizes the head and body with regard to gravity inthree-dimensional space, and maintains vital bodily functions through an interaction of vestibular-relatedcomponents of the brainstem and cerebellum with the cardiovascular and sympathetic systems.

This symposium presents new basic data and clinical findings that have arisen over the first years of the 21st Century with regard to these systems and includes these broad topics:

 • Fundamental vestibular, brainstem, and cerebellar science
 • New approaches to vestibular diagnosis, pathology, and treatment
 • Investigations of the vestibular impact on the cardiovascular and sympathetic systems

1. Discuss the relationship between eye movements and various neurologic conditions and how they may facilitate differential diagnose and management.
2. Identify the impact of the vestibular system on sympathetic function.
3. Create an appropriate management plan for patients with Mal de Debarquement Syndrome.

Welcome to the MSSM Faculty Area

Jean Buettner-Ennever, PhD
Ludwig-Maximilian University Germany

Catherine Cho, MD
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, NY

Bernard Cohen, MD
Morris Bender Professor of Neurology, emeritus
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Ian Curthoys, PhD
University of SydneyAustralia

Mingjia Dai, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Charles C. Della Santina, PhD, MD
Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Towson, MD

André Diedrich, MD, PhD
Research Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN

Albert Fuchs, PhD
Emeritus Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

G. Michael Halmagyi, BSC, MBBS, MD
Royal Prince Alfed HospitalAustralia

Gay Holstein, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Joanna Jen, MD, PhD
Professor
ISMMS
New York, NY

Richard F. Lewis, MD
Harvard Medical School
Brookline, MA

Theordore Raphan, PhD
Distinguished Professor
City University New York, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NY

Janet C. Rucker, MD
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, NY

Barbara Vickrey, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Sergei Yakushin, PhD
Associate professor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Bill J. Yates, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Laurence R Young, SCD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Cambridge, MA

David S. Zee, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Friday, April 13, 2018