An overview of possible treatment options for oculomotor disorders that prevent clear vision is given. Downbeat nystagmus, upbeat nystagmus, seesaw nystagmus, periodic alternating nystagmus, acquired pendular nystagmus, and saccadic oscillations such as opsoclonus/ocular flutter are discussed. In addition, superior oblique myokymia and vestibular paroxysmia are reviewed. All treatment recommend...

INTRODUCTION The appropriate age for surgical correction of esotropic strabismus in human infants is controversial; some clinicians advocate surgery before age 6 months, and others recommend observation and surgery at older ages. Infantile (congenital) esotropia in humans and monkeys is known to be accompanied by a constellation of eye movement abnormalities caused by maldevelopment of cerebral...

PURPOSE We aimed to define the characteristics of epileptic nystagmus and correlate those with other clinical findings in a large number of patients. METHODS We report a patient with epileptic nystagmus and additionally reviewed the reported clinical features of 36 more patients through a systematic literature search. We analyzed the characteristics of epileptic nystagmus and attempted correl...

Spontaneous nystagmus in infants may be present at birth but more frequently appears in the first 6 months.' We present a classification in which nystagmus with an onset before 6 months is called early onset nystagmus (EON) and is divided into three categories: sensory defect nystagmus (SDN) in which there is a proven sensory impairment, congenital idiopathic nystagmus (CIN) (sometimes called '...

purpose: to determine the effect of horizontal recti surgery on visual acuity and head posture and electronystagmographic indices in patients with congenital nystagmus. methods: this prospective comparative case series was conducted on 58 patients with congenital nystagmus who were referred to our clinic over three years. patients were divided into three groups: the first group (29 cases) had h...

Nystagmus is a periodic, involuntary eye condition. It is characterized by the smooth pursuit of the eye away from the target location followed by a quick saccade back to the target location. Nystagmus is also called “dancing eyes” as the eye movements appear pendular or jerky to an observer. Everyone has nystagmus. Trying to fixate on objects far in your periphery will produce nystagmus-like m...