[Modification of vestibular tests by alcohol]

Abstract

Besides the positional alcohol nystagmus, PAN I and PAN II, alcohol in conventional doses causes marked side differences in experimental vestibular and oculomotor tests together with qualitative and quantitative alterations of the experimental nystagmus. These toxic, false positive results cannot be distinguished from post-traumatic central and peripheral pathological findings. When writing an expertise, we must therefore prevent a social insurance pension based on alcohol effects, by analysing the concentration of alcohol in the blood.