Pseudonystagmus--clinical features and quantitative characteristics.

Aasef G Shaikh1, Stephen Reich, David S Zee

  • 1Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University, 600 North Wolfe Street, Pathology 2-210, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. ashaikh@dizzy.med.jhu.edu

Summary

Oscillopsia in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients can stem from head tremor and vestibular hypofunction, causing pseudonystagmus. This condition is not due to typical nystagmus but a lack of compensatory reflex responses.

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