Pontine lesions may cause selective deficits of "slow" vergence eye movements

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1039, Issue , 2005, Pages 567-570

  Rambold, H ^a   Neumann, G ^a   Sander, T ^a   Helmchen, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pontine infarction; Smooth pursuit; Vergence

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; AGED; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; PONS ANGLE; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT;

EID: 22144452510     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1325.069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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