ocular bobbing

Etiology

• thiamine deficiency, Wernicke encephalopathy*

* ocular bobbing on primary gaze, but not horizontal gaze

Pathology

• not necessarily associated with pontine pathology

Clinical manifestations

• abrupt, spontaneous downward jerks of the eyes with slow return to midposition
• occurs in association with paralysis of spontaneous & reflex horizontal eye movements

More general terms

• boobbing
• sign/symptom