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What causes motion sickness? Here's how to reconcile the mismatch in what your senses are telling your brain

  • Written by James Phillips, Research Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Director of UW Medicine’s Dizziness and Balance Center, University of Washington
What causes motion sickness? Here's how to reconcile the mismatch in what your senses are telling your brainWhen your inner ears and your eyes perceive conflicting motion, you might be in trouble.ozgurcankaya/E+ via Getty Images

My first experience with motion sickness was as a college student, standing on the back of a marine research vessel looking at interesting things dredged from the seafloor off the California coast. It was a day trip, the weather...

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