Motion Sickness Susceptibility and Management at Sea

摘要: Seasickness has been noted from the earliest times. Over 2000 years ago Greek physician Hippocrates wrote, ‘… sailing on sea proves that motion disorders body …’ The word ‘Nausea’ derives root ‘naus’, hence ‘nautical’ referring to ships. Motion sickness can be provoked by a wide variety of transport environments, including sea, land, air and space in addition may induced some types visual stimuli. This chapter describes signs symptoms sickness, possible effects human performance different provocative mechanism for is generally accepted involve sensory conflict, which evidence reviewed. But what reason or purpose does serve purpose, if any? ‘why’ analyzed both evolutionary non-functional mal-adaptive theoretical perspectives. Individual differences susceptibility are great so predictors susceptiblity Finally effectiveness behavioural pharmacological countermeasures evaluated.