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In this prospective observational study, 18 patients with dementia underwent video-oculography at baseline (V0), one month (V1), and three months (V2) after initiation or dose escalation of donepezil. SO were counted over a single 30 s recording during visual fixation and in darkness, expressed as events\/30 s. Dizziness was assessed with the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and the Vestibular Disorders Activities of Daily Living (VADL) scale. Timepoints were compared using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and within-patient associations by repeated-measures correlation (rmcorr). SO with fixation increased from a median of 0.0 (interquartile range 0.0\u20131.0) events\/30 s at V0 to 13.5 (7.2\u201315.8) at V1 (unadjusted p = 0.008, adjusted p = 0.023), then declined, but the difference from baseline lost statistical significance after multiple-comparison adjustment at V2 (6.5 [0.0\u201311.5]; unadjusted p = 0.031, adjusted p = 0.063). SO without fixation did not change (all p &gt; 0.12). On rmcorr, SO without fixation was associated with the VADL (r = 0.59, p = 0.005) but neither measure was associated with the DHI. A transient, fixation-specific increase in SO was observed, peaking at one month and only partially resolved by three months; it correlated with functional disability rather than subjective handicap, suggesting that video-oculography warrants further study as a potential pharmacodynamic correlate of cholinergic drug effect in dementia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jemr19050094","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,27]],"date-time":"2026-08-27T09:00:35Z","timestamp":1787821235000},"page":"94","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Saccadic Oscillations After Donepezil Administration in Patients with Dementia: Time Course and Clinical Correlates"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Ileok","family":"Jung","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul 05030, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1508-2024","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ji-Soo","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dizziness Center, Clinical Neuroscience Center, Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam 13620, Republic of Korea"},{"name":"Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam 13620, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4892-3475","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Moon-Ho","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Ansan 15355, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Li, S., Qian, W., Zhang, Z., Chen, Y., Hou, X., Min, B., Zhou, H., Zhu, X., Ling, J., and Yang, W. 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