Monday, January 15, 2007

Types of Nystagagmus Apart from HGN

TYPES OF NYSTAGMUS–SEPARATE FROM HORIZONTAL NYSTAGMUS

(1) Acquired;
(2) Anticipatory (induced);
(3) Arthrokinetic (induced, somatosensory);
(4) Associated (induced, Stransky’s);
(5) Audio kinetic (induced);
(6) Bartel’s (induced);
(7) Brun’s;
(8) Centripetal;
(9) Cervical (neck torsion, vestibular-basilar artery insufficiency);
(10) Circular/Elliptic/Oblique (alternating windmill, circumduction, diagonal, elliptic, gyratory, oblique, radiary);
(11) Congenital (fixation, hereditary);
(12) Convergence;
(13) Convergence-evoked;
(14) Dissociated (disjunctive);
(15) Downbeat;
(16) Drug-induced (barbituate, bow tie, induced);
(17) Epileptic (ictal);
(18) Flash induced;
(19) Gaze-evoked (deviational, gaze-paretic, neurasthenic, seducible, setting-in);
(20) Horizontal;
(21) Induced (provoked);
(22) Intermittent Vertical;
(23) Jerk;
(24) Latent/Manifest Latent (monocular fixation, unimacular);
(25) Lateral Medullary;
(26) Lid;
(27) Miner’s (occupational);
(28) Muscle-Paretic (myasthenic);
(29) Optokinetic (induced, optomotor, panoramic, railway, sigma);
(30) Optokinetic After-Induced (post-optokinetic, reverse post-optokinetic);
(31) Pendular (talantropia);
(32) Periodic/Aperiodic Alternating;
(33) Physiologic (end-point, fatigue);
(34) Pursuit After-induced;
(35) Pursuit Defect;
(36) Pseudo spontaneous;
(37) Rebound;
(38) Reflex (Baer’s);
(39) See-Saw;
(40) Somatosensory;
(41) Spontaneous;
(42) Stepping Around;
(43) Torsional;
(44) Uniocular;
(45) Upbeat;
(46) Vertical;
(47) Vestibular (ageotropic, geotropic, Bechterew’s, caloric, compensatory, electrical/faradic/galvanic, labyrinthine, pneumatic/compression, positional/alcohol, pseudo caloric.

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