Slow vertical saccades in motor neuron disease: Correlation of structure and function

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 641-648

  Averbuch Heller, Lea ^a,c   Helmchen, Christoph ^b   Horn, Anja K E ^b   Leigh, R John ^a   Büttner Ennever, Jean A ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN STEM; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SACCADES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0031783966     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410440410     Document Type: Article

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