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Upbeat nystagmus during head rotation in rotational vertebral artery occlusion

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This work was supported by a Grant of the Korean Heath Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea (A070001).

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  1. Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, 1-10 Ami-dong, Seo-gu, Busan, 602-739, Korea

    Seung-Ha Park & Kwang-Dong Choi

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Busan, Korea

    Seong-Jang Kim

  3. Department of Neurology, Bone Hospital, Busan, Korea

    Jae-Deuk Seo

  4. Department of Neurology, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea

    Dae-Hyun Kim

  5. Department of Neurology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Biomedical Research Institute, Busan, Korea

    Jae-Hwan Choi

  6. Department of Neurology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

    Ji Soo Kim

  7. Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

    Ji Soo Kim

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Supplementary material 1 Leftward head rotation induces convergent eye motion with horizontal and vertical saccadic oscillation of small amplitude and high frequency, which is followed by prominent upbeat nystagmus with a small left-beating component. The upbeat nystagmus decreases over the following 20 seconds even though the rotated head posture is maintained. (WMV 9557 kb)

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Park, SH., Kim, SJ., Seo, JD. et al. Upbeat nystagmus during head rotation in rotational vertebral artery occlusion. J Neurol 261, 1213–1215 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-014-7328-5

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