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© 1985 Oxford University Press

research-article

POSITIONAL AND OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS IN HEALTHY OLD PEOPLE

STEPHEN J. LYNCH, Medical Student*, U. S. L. NAYAK, Lecturer in Bioengineering and B. ISAACS, Charles Hayward Professor of Geriatric Medicine

University of Aberdeen Hayward Building, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD
Department of Geriatric Medicine Hayward Building, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD
Hayward Building, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD

*Address correspondence to Professor Isaacs.

Positional nystagmus and asymmetry of the optokinetic response were each found in four of 10 symptomless subjects aged 69 to 76 years who had normal balance function as demonstrated on the Kistler force platform. Positional nystagmus was also found in one of 10 healthy young subjects, none of whom had an abnormal optokinetic response. Abnormalities of these responses are therefore common in healthy old people and lack diagnostic specificity.

accepted in revised form August 22, 1984.


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