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FOR descriptive purposes, two types of inverse nystagmus may be differentiated : (1) secondary nystagmus, wherein responses opposed in direction to a primary reaction occur shortly after the primary has declined ; (2) homolateral nystagmus, wherein the first (the primary) response to the stimulus has a direction opposite to the normal primary reaction. The occurrence of a secondary reaction to rotatory stimuli has been frequently observed in both man and animals1–5. However, with unilateral caloric stimulation of man under usual testing conditions, the secondary apparently does not occur1.
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COLLINS, W. Inverse Caloric Nystagmus obtained by Unilateral Stimulation of the Cat. Nature 195, 808–809 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195808b0
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