Causes Of Acrophobia

Traditionally:

-->acrophobia has been attributed to conditioning or traumatic experience involving heights

Recent:

-->studies have cast doubt on this explanation fear of falling

Most Probable Causes:

-->dysfunction in maintaining balance

-->anxiety both well founded and secondary

-->the human balance system integrates proprioceptive,

vestibular and nearby visual cues to reckon position and motion

-->height increases, visual cues recede and balance becomes poorer even in normal people

most people respond by shifting to more reliance on the proprioceptive and vestibular branches of the equilibrium system.