More than half of the patients attending neurology clinics complain of vertigo, and it is a variety of vertigo, including old, middle-aged and young people; there are more forms, including dizzy vertigo, spinning vertigo and light-headed vertigo; and the doctors’ diagnosis seems to show a certain pattern: old patients – cerebral blood supply deficiency, middle-aged patients – cervical spondylosis, women – Meniere’s syndrome. Vertigo is very common, it is a simple clinical symptom, but the diagnosis and treatment of vertigo can be not simple at all, so what are the common misconceptions about the diagnosis and treatment of vertigo? First of all, there is no distinction between dizziness and vertigo. Vertigo refers to the sense of rotation or oscillation of oneself or the environment, which is a kind of motion hallucination; dizziness mainly manifests itself as a sense of instability, often accompanied by a sense of mental unclearness, that is, dizziness. Secondly, vertigo is also divided into true and false. “Pseudovertigo, also known as cerebral vertigo, is mostly caused by the cortical centers of the balance triad (visual, proprioceptive, vestibular) or systemic diseases that affect the above cortical centers, and the patient feels “dizzy” without a clear sense of rotation; for example Pseudovertigo” can be caused by hypertension, fever, anemia, etc. “True vertigo” is caused by a triad of balance lesions, and there is a clear sense of rotation or body movement.