Walsh & Hoyt: Ocular Motor Manifestations of Seizures

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Identifier wh_ch19_p948_2
Title Walsh & Hoyt: Ocular Motor Manifestations of Seizures
Creator David S. Zee, MD; David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD
Affiliation (DSZ) Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University; (DN) Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology, Ophthalmology, & Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Subject Ocular Motor System; Ocular Motility Disorders; Seizures; Ocular Motor Manifestations
Description Eye and head movements are common manifestations of epileptic seizures, and the wide representation of oculomotor and vestibular control within the cerebral cortex leads to a number of possible ways that seizures can affect eye movements themselves and visual or vestibular perceptions. A variety of eye movements can occur with seizures, including horizontal or vertical gaze deviation, skew deviation, and spontaneous, retractory, periodic alternating or monocular nystagmus. Epileptic convergence nystagmus may occur with periodic lateralizing epileptiform discharges and with burst-suppression patterns. The seizure focus may arise from any lobe, although the lesions usually are more posterior. Epileptic nystagmus can occur with typical absence seizures and with infantile spasms.
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 6th Edition
Relation is Part of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 2005. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s69342n6
Setname ehsl_novel_whts
ID 185904
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69342n6
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