We report two patients with an ocular tilt reaction (OTR) due to unilateral
caudal cerebellar lesion. One patient had a caudal cerebellar hemorrhage,
the other a posterior inferior cerebellar artery territory infarct. There w
as head tilt in both patients which had not been reported previously. These
findings support the previous proposal that the mechanism of a tonic contr
aversive OTR with unilateral cerebellar lesion is an increased tonic restin
g activity in the ipsilesional vestibular nucleus due to a loss of inhibiti
on from the lesioned nodulus.