Mal de débarquement syndrome

The recent review of mal de debarquement syndrome (MdDS) by Saha and Fife1 covered many aspects of the illness, but there is additional information that your readers should know. Using results from NASA experiments on humans2 and experiments from our laboratory on subhuman primates,3 Dai devised a treatment for MdDS that has proven to be successful in a large proportion of patients with MdDS. We demonstrated that 70% of 24 people with MdDS were symptom free for an average of 1 year after treatment.4 Subsequently, we have been contacted by many patients with MdDS and currently have treated more than 100. Although we do not have adequate follow-up yet (treatment only began in …