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Epileptic nystagmus
Author(s) -
Furman Joseph M. R.,
Crumrine Patricia K.,
Reinmuth Oscar M.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410270617
Subject(s) - nystagmus , electrooculography , audiology , vertigo , medicine , eye movement , epilepsy , gaze , electroencephalography , psychology , neuroscience , ophthalmology , surgery , psychoanalysis
We report a 52‐year‐old woman with episodes of vertigo accompanied by right beating nystagmus and left posterior temporoparietal sharp waves and spikes on electroencephalogram without change in level of consciousness. Electrooculography demonstrated that the episodes of nystagmus were not preceded by gaze deviation and that nystagmus slow component velocities were linear. This patient's epileptic nystagmus may have been the result of excitation of cerebral ocular pursuit pathways.