Evaluating large saccades in patients with brain-stem or cerebellar disorders

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1039, Issue , 2005, Pages 404-416

  Kumar, Arun N ^a   Han, Yanning H ^a   Liao, Ke ^a   Rucker, Janet C ^a   Ramat, Stefano ^c   Leigh, R John ^a,b,d  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fastigial nucleus; Skewness; Velocity profile

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; FASTIGIAL NUCLEUS; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOCLONUS; OCULOPALATAL TREMOR; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TAY SACHS DISEASE; TREMOR;

EID: 22144480242     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1325.038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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