The three semicircular canals—the anterior, lateral, and posterior—are filled with fluid ... a cavity in the inner ear. Each one is angled on a specific plane. While their lengths vary ...

This underlying philosophy helped guide the collaborative effort to study the inner ear led by Shigeru Kuratani at RIKEN ... timing across all three types of vertebrate. The anterior and posterior ...

For the rare patient whose BPPV is not responsive to these manoeuvres and has severe symptoms, posterior canal occlusion surgery is a safe and highly effective procedure. Of all the inner ear ...