Meniere's disease: a neuropsychological study II.

23 Meniere patients were examined with an extensive battery of neuropsychological tests. In a previous investigation the authors had demonstrated that patients with a long duration of Meniere's disease had psychological disturbances, presumably localized in the nondominant hemisphere. In the present investigation the patients had a short duration of the disease, and we were unable to reproduce the psychological disturbances. It is concluded that the central changes in the nondominant hemisphere function develop over a long period of time. It is hoped for that further neuropsychological investigations of Meniere patients can give more information of what is primary in Meniere's disease: peripheral sensory or central neurological changes.