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The following is a list of motion sickness resources and Web sites that you might find helpful. Also included are the primary references we used to build the RealAge Motion Sickness Health Assessment and related information. When you click on a link, your browser will launch a new window, and you'll be visiting a third-party site. To return to RealAge, simply close the new window.

General Information

American Academy of Otolaryngology

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

University of Maryland Medical Center


Primary Articles

Acupressure relieves the symptoms of motion sickness and reduces abnormal gastric activity. Stern, R. M., Jokerst, M. D., Muth, E. R., Hollis, C., Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 2001 Jul-Aug;7(4):91-94.

Autogenic-feedback training exercise is superior to promethazine for control of motion sickness symptoms. Cowings, P. S., Toscano, W. B., Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2000 Oct;40(10):1154-1165.

Behavioral airsickness management program for student pilots. Giles, D. A., Lochridge, G. K., Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 1985 Oct;56(10):991-994.

Behavioral methods of alleviating motion sickness: effectiveness of controlled breathing and a music audiotape. Yen Pik Sang, F. D., Billar, J. P., Golding, J. F., Gresty, M. A., Journal of Travel Medicine 2003 Mar-Apr;10(2):108-111.

Committee to advise on tropical medicine and travel (CATMAT). Canada Communicable Disease Report 1996 Jul 1;22(13):101-111.

Comparison of efficacy of ginger with various antimotion sickness drugs. Wood, C., Manno, J., Wood, M., Manno, B., Mims, M., Clinical Research Regulatory Affairs 1988;6(2):129-136.

Effects of ginger on motion sickness and gastric slow-wave dysrhythmias induced by circular vection. Lien, H. C., Sun, W. M., Chen, Y. H., Kim, H., Hasler, W., Owyang, C., American Journal of Physiology—Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 2003 Mar;284(3):G481-489.

Motion sickness. Golding JF, Gresty MA., Current Opinion in Neurology 2005 Feb;18(1):29-34.

Motion sickness in public road transport: passenger behavior and susceptibility. Turner, M., Griffin, M. J., Ergonomics 1999 Mar;42(3):444-461.

The menstrual cycle and susceptibility to virtual simulation sickness. Clemes, S. A., Howarth, P. A., Journal of Biological Rhythms 2005 Feb;20(1):71-82.

Reducing motion sickness: a comparison of autogenic-feedback training and an alternative cognitive task. Toscano, W. B., Cowings, P. S., Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 1982 May;53(5):449-453.

Relationship between motion sickness, migraine and menstruation in crew members of a "round the world" yacht race. Grunfeld, E., Gresty, M. A., Brain Research Bulletin 1998 Nov 15;47(5):433-436.

Scopolamine for preventing and treating motion sickness. Spinks, A. B., Wasiak, J., Villanueva. E. V., Bernath, V., Cochrane Database Systematic Reviews 2004;(3):CD002851.

Suppression of sickness by controlled breathing during mildly nauseogenic motion. Yen Pik Sang, F. D., Golding, J. F., Gresty, M. A., Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 2003 Sep;74(9):998-1002.

Susceptibility of divers in open water to motion sickness. Norfleet, W. T., Peterson, R. E., Hamilton, R. W., Olstad, C. S., Undersea Biomedical Research 1992 Jan;19(1):41-47.

Visual field effects on motion sickness in cars. Griffin, M. J., Newman, M. M., Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 2004 Sep;75(9):739-748.

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