There is a rising interest in the diagnosis of the common vestibular disorders in childhood and adulthood. The results from numerous epidemiological investigations prove the socio-medical importance of this pathology. In the present survey, the applications of the main diagnostic methods in this interdisciplinary field are discussed. Here belong the caloric test, the video head impulse test, the cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials, the videonistagmography, the

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... graphy, the magnetic resonance imaging, the computed tomography, etc. A special attention is paid to the comparative diagnosis of some socially significant common vestibular disorders.