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Dancing Eye syndrome

Background

Dancing Eye syndrome: Kinsbourne syndrome; Myoclonic Encephalopathy; Opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome

This is a very rare neurological condition which develops over days or a week or two. The features are unsteadiness (ataxia) jerky movements of the trunk and limbs (myoclonus), rapid involuntary eye movements in all directions (opsoclonus) and usually marked irritability with sleep disturbance. As with many other diseases, there is considerable variation in severity.

Most children develop the condition in the second or third year of life but rarely it may occur earlier or later in childhood.

What are the causes? View What are the causes?

Medical text written August 1996 by Dr J Wilson, Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK. Last Updated January 2007 by Dr M Pike, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Children's Hospital, Oxford. UK.

 

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