title: [Head shaking nystagmus].
abstract: The method of head shaking test and the clinical significance of head shaking nystagmus were studied. A series of 300 patients suffering from dizziness and disturbance of equilibrium and a group of 60 normal persons were investigated. There was no head shaking nystagmus in normal persons. The incidences of head shaking nystagmus were exceedingly higher than those of other methods of nystagmus provocation. The elicited nystagmus was considered as a form of pathologic sign of central lesions if it was of vertical and oblique type. The head shaking test for detection of latent imbalance of vestibular function as well as for the examination of the patients with dizziness and disturbance of equilibrium was stressed.
authors.affiliation: First Hospital, Beijing Medical University.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004244:Dizziness / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004584:Electronystagmography; D005260:Female; D006257:Head; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009759:Nystagmus, Pathologic / Q000209:etiology*; D009760:Nystagmus, Physiologic; D011187:Posture