Sunday 4 September 2011

People Who Hear Their Eyeballs Move

It sounds like something out of an Edgar Allen Poe tale of horror. A man becomes agitated by strange sounds only to find that they are emanating from inside his own body - his heart, his pulse, the very movement of his eyes in their sockets.

Yet superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS) is a very real affliction caused by a small hole in the bone covering part of the inner ear. Such a breach results in distortion of hearing and, often, impaired balance.

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