“…In both our patients, the fast phase of the EN was directed toward the side opposite the seizure discharge, as in 23 of 32 earlier persons in whom the direction of nystagmus was specified and ictal EEGs were obtained (Terzian, 1955;Infuso and Migliore, 1959;Gastaut, 1960;Giove, 1960;Caneschi et al, 1963;Ricci and Vizioli, 1966;Arend et al, 1968;Rad, 1970;White, 1971;Huott et al, 1974;Enokido et al, 1977;Hidaka et al, 1978;Smith and Docherty, 1982;Beun et al, 1984;Barry et al, 1985;Ramani, 1985;Thurston et al, 1985;Barry, 1986;Aldrich et al, 1989;Furman et al, 1990;Tusa et al, 1990). The remaining 9 individuals had EN which was ipsiversive in 2 (Gastaut and Roger, 1954;Gastaut, 1960), pendular in 3 (Trevisan and Belsasso, 1961;Trevisan and Dettori, 1967;Kanazawa et al, 1989), upbeat in 2 (Shanzer et al, 1965;Pritchard and Tucker, 1982), alternately contraversive and vertical in 1 (Kaplan and Lesser, 1989), and "poorly systematized" in 1 (Talairach et al, 1961).…”