(DGC) Former Director of Ophthalmology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Subject
Eye Movement Recordings; Wernicke Encephalopathy; Ocular Bobbing
Description
History: asymmetrical ocular bobbing; deliberate downward movement; regular, not rhythmic; slow return to primary position; staying down with some oscillation; setting of total pontine gaze palsy. Disease/ Diagnosis: Wernicke Encephalopathy.
Date
1980; 1989
References
Fisher (1964) Arch. Neurol. 11:543; Susac, Hoyt; Daroff; Lawrence (1970) J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psych. 33:777