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Progressive ataxia with oculo-palatal tremor and optic atrophy

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  1. Centre for Neuroscience, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, 4 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK

    M. M. Papachatzaki, I. Peppas & K. Schmierer

  2. Department of Neurology, Barts Health NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, London, UK

    M. M. Papachatzaki, C. Everett & K. Schmierer

  3. Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    N. Ali

  4. Neuro-otology Unit, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Q. Arshad & A. M. Bronstein

  5. Department of Neurology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

    Q. Arshad & A. M. Bronstein

  6. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, UK

    S. Cader

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Video 1 3D video oculography of the right eye during fixation to a LED target, initially in primary gaze and then during fixation 15° to the right, left and back to centre. Note the large, asymmetric, torsional, ‘rotatory’ nystagmus, which is larger and faster to the left (clockwise from the observer’s point of view). (M4 V 15114 kb)

Video 2 Non-periodic palatal tremor (~2 Hz) with synchronous oscillations of the posterior pharyngeal wall muscles. (M4 V 5399 kb)

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Papachatzaki, M.M., Ali, N., Arshad, Q. et al. Progressive ataxia with oculo-palatal tremor and optic atrophy. J Neurol 260, 2903–2905 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-013-7136-3

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