title: Ocular bobbing: the myth of its localizing value.
abstract: Ocular bobbing is a distinctive eye movement disorder seen in patients with pontine dysfunction. The typical phenomenon consists of abrupt, spontaneous downward jerks of the eyes with a slow return to the midposition in association with paralysis of spontaneous and reflex horizontal eye movements. Bobbing was present in a patient with acute cerebellar hemorrhage in whom no intrapontine lesions could be demonstrated. The myth that this sign is specific for intrapontine destruction has to be abandoned.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D006406:Hematoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011149:Pons / Q000473:pathology*