The origin of downbeat nystagmus: An asymmetry in the distribution of on-directions of vertical gaze-velocity purkinje cells

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1039, Issue , 2005, Pages 548-553

  Marti, Sarah ^a   Straumann, Dominik ^a   Glasauer, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Flocculus; Neural integrator; Ocular drift; Smooth pursuit

Indexed keywords

CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DARKNESS; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GAZE; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NYSTAGMUS; PURKINJE CELL;

EID: 20444484667     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1325.065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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