Modelling of congenital nystagmus waveforms produced by saccadic system abnormalities

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 391-399

  Broomhead, David S ^a   Clement, Richard A ^b   Muldoon, Mark R ^a   Whittle, Jonathan P ^c   Scallan, Columba ^a   Abadi, Richard V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NYSTAGMUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; SACCADES;

EID: 0034181777     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220050593     Document Type: Article

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