Medical mystery: How can some people hear their own eyeballs move?

by LARRY GREENEMEIER

A CACOPHONY OF BODILY FUNCTIONS: Superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS) is caused by a small hole in the bone covering part of the inner ear (in blue). Such a hole results in distortion of hearing and, often, impaired balance. IMAGE/ERICSPHOTOGRAPHY, VIA ISTOCKPHOT.COM

A disorder of the inner ear called superior canal dehiscence syndrome causes every sound within the body to be amplified, even the movement of one’s eyeballs, all the time. Sounds strange, but it is true (and treatable)

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