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She showed no signs of nuchal dystonia, limb tremor, rigidity, spasticity, or ataxia. The dopaminergic response was negative. On the initial examination, her vertical eye movements were normal, but frequent macro square wave jerks and SPPG were observed. SPPG consisted of short-cycle, horizontal conjugate irregular pendular oscillations of the eye position from the midpoint with superimposed small saccades. SPPG was observed usually in the dark, not in the daylight, and with eye closure by using electrooculogram and infrared charge-coupled device imaging. One and a half years after the first examination, she was diagnosed as probable PSP with vertical supranuclear gaze palsy. SPPG was first described in patients who are unconscious by Johkura in 1998 as a \u201csaccadic\u201d variant of \u201cping-pong gaze (PPG).\u201d PPG, short-cycle periodic alternating gaze, has been described in comatose patients since 1967. On the other hand, abnormal eye movement, which looks the same as SPPG in coma, has been described in conscious patients with PSP or spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD) in Japanese literature since 1975. However, it has been called \u201ctransient alternating saccades (TAS).\u201d Nowadays, we believe it is more appropriate to call this abnormal eye movement \u201cSPPG\u201d instead of TAS. Here, we propose that PSP, a neuro-degenerative disease, should be added as one of the etiologies of SPPG. 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