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  • Title: Primary position vertical nystagmus: 'directional preponderance' of the pusuit system?
    Author: Mehdorn E, Kommerell G, Meienberg O.
    Journal: Albrecht Von Graefes Arch Klin Exp Ophthalmol; 1979 Jan 15; 209(3):209-17. PubMed ID: 311175.
    Abstract:
    The essential disturbance in five patients with vertical nystagmus was an inability to generate smooth pursuit eye movements in the direction of the quick phase of their nystagmus. As the cause of this behavior, the authors suggest an asymmetric impairment of the visual input to the pursuit system. This defect causes a 'directional preponderance' of the pursuit system detectable as a continuous drift off target. The drift is interrupted by refoveating saccades, thus resulting in a vertical nystagmus.
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