Causes
Drugs that can trigger an oculogyric crisis include neuroleptics (such as olanzapine),, carbamazepine, cetirizine, chloroquine, cisplatin, diazoxide, levodopa, lithium, metoclopramide, domperidone, nifedipine, pemoline, phencyclidine ("PCP"), reserpine.
Other causes can include postencephalitic Parkinson's, Tourette's syndrome, multiple sclerosis, neurosyphilis, head trauma, bilateral thalamic infarction, lesions of the fourth ventricle, cystic glioma of the third ventricle, herpes encephalitis, kernicterus and juvenile Parkinson's.
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