Adaptive neural mechanism for Listing's law revealed in patients with skew deviation caused by brainstem or cerebellar lesion

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 204-214

  Fesharaki, Maryam ^a   Karagiannis, Peter ^a   Tweed, Douglas ^a   Sharpe, James A ^a   Wong, Agnes M F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SKEW DEVIATION; STRABISMUS; ADAPTATION; AGED; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; EYE FIXATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTION ERROR; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SACCADES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 39549109563     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0292     Document Type: Article

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