Analysis of a case of periodic alternating nystagmus. Issue 4 (April 1976)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rudge, P; Leech, J
• Is Part Of: Journal of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry. Volume 39:Issue 4(1976)
• Page Start: 314
• Page End: 319
• Publication Date: 1976-04
• Subjects: Neurology -- Periodicals; Nervous system -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; 616.8
• DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.39.4.314
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-3050

Abstract

Abstract : A patient is described in whom there was periodic deviation of the eyes in darkness associated with alternating nystagmus. An exactly similar situation occurs in normal man subjected to a pendular stimulus. It is proposed that in this patient there was alternating activity of the vestibular nuclei on either side of the brain-stem as a result of a removal of cerebellar inhibition, and that this caused periodic shifts in the null region of Daroff and Dell'Osso.