Abnormal Eye Movements

Ocular flutter and opsoclonus are intermittent bursts of involuntary conjugate eye oscillations, in the horizontal multidirectional planes, respectively, without intersaccadic intervals. Patients with ocular flutter/opsoclonus often present oscillopsia vertigo, sometimes cerebellar ataxia myoclonus. can be caused by various diseases, such as postinfectious encephalitis, paraneoplastic syndrome, drug toxicity. Treatment causative disease is primary goal treatment, but cases where they occur a part prognosis for neurologic findings may poor, regardless treatment status tumor. originate from loss omnipause neuronal inhibition on burst neurons within brainstem generator. In recent years, attention has been focused hyperexcitable or disinhibited state membrane.