Ocular Motility Disorders

Disorders that feature impairment of eye movements as a primary manifestation of disease. These conditions may be divided into infranuclear, nuclear, and supranuclear disorders. Diseases of the eye muscles or oculomotor cranial nerves (III, IV, and VI) are considered infranuclear. Nuclear disorders are caused by disease of the oculomotor, trochlear, or abducens nuclei in the BRAIN STEM. Supranuclear disorders are produced by dysfunction of higher order sensory and motor systems that control eye movements, including neural networks in the CEREBRAL CORTEX; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBELLUM; and BRAIN STEM. Ocular torticollis refers to a head tilt that is caused by an ocular misalignment. Opsoclonus refers to rapid, conjugate oscillations of the eyes in multiple directions, which may occur as a parainfectious or paraneoplastic condition (e.g., OPSOCLONUS-MYOCLONUS SYNDROME). (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p240)

Also Known As:

Convergence Insufficiency; Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia; Eye Motility Disorders; Parinaud's Syndrome; Convergence Excess; Opsoclonus; Cyclophoria; Eye Movement Disorders; Parinaud Syndrome; Brown's Tendon Sheath Syndrome; Deficiency, Smooth Pursuit; Paroxysmal Ocular Dyskinesia; Pseudoophthalmoplegia; Spasm of Conjugate Gaze; Syndrome, Brown's Tendon Sheath; Tendon Sheath Syndrome of Brown; Browns Syndrome; Conjugate Gaze Spasm; Conjugate Gaze Spasms; Convergence Excesses; Convergence Insufficiencies; Cyclophorias; Deficiencies, Smooth Pursuit; Deviation, Skew; Deviations, Skew; Dyskinesia, Paroxysmal Ocular; Dyskinesias, Paroxysmal Ocular; Excess, Convergence; Eye Motility Disorder; Eye Movement Disorder; Gaze Spasms, Conjugate; Insufficiencies, Convergence; Insufficiency, Convergence; Internuclear Ophthalmoplegias; Ocular Dyskinesia, Paroxysmal; Ocular Dyskinesias, Paroxysmal; Ocular Motility Disorder; Ophthalmoplegia, Internuclear; Ophthalmoplegias, Internuclear; Parinauds Syndrome; Paroxysmal Ocular Dyskinesias; Pseudoophthalmoplegias; Pursuit Deficiencies, Smooth; Pursuit Deficiency, Smooth; Skew Deviations; Smooth Pursuit Deficiencies; Syndrome, Brown; Syndrome, Brown's; Syndrome, Parinaud; Syndrome, Parinaud's; Brown Syndrome; Brown Tendon Sheath Syndrome; Brown's Syndrome; Ocular Torticollis; Skew Deviation; Smooth Pursuit Deficiency

Nervous System Diseases: 14178
- Central Nervous System Diseases: 4213
  - Ocular Motility Disorders: 514
- Cranial Nerve Diseases: 554
  - Ocular Motility Disorders: 514
    - Strabismus: 3767
      - Ocular Motility Disorders: 514
Eye Diseases: 3522
- Ocular Motility Disorders: 514

familial congenital fourth cranial nerve palsy

Disease Context: Research Results