Smooth pursuit eye movements and otolith-ocular responses are differently impaired in cerebellar ataxia

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1497-1505

  Anastasopoulos, Dimitri ^a,b   Haslwanter, Thomas ^a   Fetter, Michael ^a   Dichgans, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cerebellar ataxia; Off vertical axis rotation; Otolith canal interaction; Smooth pursuit; Three dimensional eye movements

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; MOTION; NYSTAGMUS; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

EID: 0031856049     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.8.1497     Document Type: Article

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