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Teaching Video NeuroImage: Acquired or congenital gaze-evoked nystagmus?
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Teaching Video NeuroImage: Acquired or congenital gaze-evoked nystagmus?

Matthew J Thurtell, Konrad P Weber and G. Michael Halmagyi
Neurology, Vol.70(23), pp.e96-E96
2008
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000313842.11229.b1
PMID: 18519866
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Abstract

A 40-year-old female migraineur reported intermittent unsteadiness with headache. On examination, she had gaze-evoked horizontal-torsional nystagmus that was also evident during pursuit (video). Nystagmus recordings showed increasing-velocity slow phases typical for congenital nystagmus (CN) (figure 1). A relative subsequently confirmed that the nystagmus was long-standing.Figure 1 Three-dimensional search-coil recordings of the patient's nystagmusThe patient is attempting …

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